Export Sales and Shipments for July 4-10, 2025. Wheat: Net sales of 494,400 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were down 13 percent from the previous week, but up 8 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 432,900 MT were down 3 percent from the previous week, but up 7 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Mexico (153,700 MT), the Philippines (66,000 MT), South Africa (51,800 MT), South Korea (51,000 MT), and Japan (35,100 MT). Corn: Net sales of 97,600 MT for 2024/2025--a marketing-year low--were down 92 percent from the previous week and 89 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,210,700 MT were down 28 percent from the previous week and 24 percent from the...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.