The EU Commission has issued its forecasts for sunseed production in Bulgaria and Romania, which indicate notable changes from 2016. Meanwhile, protestors last Friday lifted their blockade of Brazil’s BR-163 highway that had impacted port deliveries. NOPA Soy Crush Falls Below Trade Estimates The National Oilseed Processors Association’s (NOPA’s) monthly soybean crush report of yesterday indicated members processed 138.074 million bushels in June. The daily crush rate was 4.602 million bushels versus 4.815 million bushels in May, a decline of 4.4 percent. The month’s total volume was well below the average estimate of analysts queried by Reuters of 143.093 million bushels as well as the 149.246 million bushels in May and 145.05 million bu...
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.