U.S. Ag Office Lowers Forecast for China’s Soybean Imports The USDA/FAS office in Beijing this week forecasted China’s soybean imports in 2018/19 at 82 MMT and 80 MMT in 2019/20. That compares to current USDA forecasts for imports of 83 MMT in 2018/19 and 85 MMT in 2019/20. That would be the lowest soybean imports in five years and down from an estimated 94.045 MMT in 2017/18. The reduction in the forecasts for China’s soybean imports mostly is a result of sharply lower swine production because of African Swine Fever (ASF) that has reduced the swine herds by over 100 million head. It also is partly a result of China’s soybean production in 2019 forecasted at 17.1 MMT, up from 15.2 MMT in 2017 and 15.9 MMT in...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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.