Minimal U.S. Soy Export Sales Last Week Today’s USDA/FAS export sales report indicated exporters of U.S. soybeans, soymeal, and soyoil made only small sales of the three commodities in the week ending 6 May. That is likely to be the case for most of the rest of the marketing year considering the expected tightness of U.S. soy supplies and less expensive South American supplies. Net soybean export sales last week for shipment in 2020/21 totaled only 94,300 MT. Sales in Indonesia (60,300 MT), Mexico 24,500 MT), Venezuela (18,000 MT), Japan (13,100 MT), Colombia (12,500 MT) and other destinations were partially offset by reductions in sales to unknown destinations of 41,200 MT. Sales for shipment in 2021/22 of 102,500 MT were to Mexico...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.