Export Sales and Shipments for February 6-12, 2026. Wheat: Net sales of 288,000 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were down 41 percent from the previous week and 44 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 322,600 MT were down 44 percent from the previous week and 26 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Japan (171,800 MT), Mexico (37,100 MT), the Dominican Republic (24,500 MT), Colombia (21,800 MT), and Nigeria (21,000 MT). Corn: Net sales of 1,469,500 MT for 2025/2026 were down 29 percent from the previous week and 33 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,626,900 MT were up 8 percent from the previous week and 13 percent from the prior 4-week avera...
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.