Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Grain markets in the MENA region are quiet due to the Musim Eid holidays that extends through 9 June. The FAO forecast Egypt to have above average grain crops in 2025, much of which is due to improved availability of high yielding seed stocks and higher government set purchase prices for wheat. Imports for 2024/25 are seen as reaching 14 MMT for wheat with corn imports at 8 MMT. Wheat imports are also said to be higher due to increased levels of wheat flour exports by Egypt. Sudan is the largest importer of Egyptian wheat flour. Actual cereal production for 224 is seen as 9.4 MMT for wheat and 7.2 MMT for corn. Egypt’s CNF cost for wheat is about $230 to $240 depen...
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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.