Almost none of the primary U.S. grain or oilseed offerings have made a solid start to 2025-26, as export sales for the upcoming marketing year are largely near multi-year lows. This is not yet a huge problem since the typical buying periods for the season’s supplies are mostly still in the future, especially depending on the tariff situation. With the increased uncertainty clouding trade between the U.S. and its partners, these numbers will be key to watch in the coming months as the geopolitical dust begins to settle. U.S. exporters sold about 182,000 MT of soybeans for 2025-26 in the week ending 10 April, their biggest weekly volume to date. However, total new-crop sales are around 460,000 MT, an 18-year low for the date...
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.