Export Sales for Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2022 Wheat: Net sales of 189,900 metric tons (MT) for 2022/2023 were primarily for China (65,000 MT), Iraq (50,000 MT), Mexico (34,200 MT, including decreases of 100 MT), Italy (15,700 MT, including decreases of 400 MT), and Haiti (7,000 MT). Export Shipments of 257,400 MT were primarily to the Philippines (110,000 MT), Japan (35,000 MT), Algeria (32,600 MT), Mexico (31,700 MT), and Nigeria (30,000 MT). Corn: Net sales of 691,600 MT for 2022/2023 primarily for Mexico (333,100 MT, including decreases of 32,400 MT), China (204,900 MT, including 189,200 MT switched from unknown destinations), Costa Rica (122,300 MT), Guatemala (32,100 MT), and Honduras (28,800 MT), were of...
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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.