With potentially smaller crops this coming season in South America due to delayed planting schedules, the question is how this will impact major ending stocks. Argentina and Brazil have not historically held carryover stocks in corn and wheat. That burden has been held by the U.S. However, these two countries have tended to be larger holders of surplus soybean stocks. Being the holder of carryover stocks imposes a cost burden that is only ameliorated in short crop years when the residual supplier can earn more money. South American farmers have been increasing their storage capacity over time. However, Brazilian farmers have reportedly forward sold a majority of their upcoming soybeans. The impact on competing suppliers will depend on the...
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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.