Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Iran and Pakistan are expected to benefit from Azerbaijan lifting its export ban on grains. Talks with both countries are planned for next week to discuss shipping logistics and additional export opportunities. Pakistan says the recent floods will mean wheat will have to be imported and imported fertilizer will be needed to help rebuild crop yields in damaged farmlands. One third of the country is said to have been inundated with flood waters. Officials add that they will have to look beyond India for wheat supply due to existing Pakistan/India problems. Pakistan’s government reports current strategic wheat stocks of 8.64 MMT which it says will last...
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.