Regional News Sweden’s 2023/24 grain production is expected to total just 4.4 - 4.5 MMT, down 1 MMT from 2022/23 and the lowest level in 30 years. As of Friday, 27 October there were 27 vessels at the entrance to Ukraine’s temporary Black Sea shipping corridor and 54 at the exit with operations having resumed after a short-lived shutdown early last week. Milling Wheat World wheat markets were mostly steady/lower last week with the resumption in export shipments from Ukraine pressuring values. EU wheat was down about €7/MT last week while U.S. markets followed and posted losses for the week. U.S. KCBT futures scored new contract lows on light demand for the grain. EU markets saw export interest fr...
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.