Corn Brazil Finally, the first vessel loaded with Brazil corn and destined for China will leave the port of Santos this week. The vessel Mv Star Iris is set to load 68,000 MT of corn for COFCO. Many expected Brazil to start shipping corn in 2023, but others expected it to occur in December 2022. This shipment is earlier than anticipated, however, as expensive U.S. Gulf corn precipitated the timing. According to Brazilian government statistics, November might end with about 200 KMT of corn loaded for China. Also, there are rumors that there are trades for another 1 MMT. Buyers have been actively buying for loading in January 2023 and consequently basis levels are rising. There have also been several trades for new crop corn to non-C...
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.