Production and Incentives Late planted soybeans in Argentina are filling pods and are still too dry. In Brazil, the soybean harvest is 69 percent completed. As a result of the war, Ukraine may only plant half the usual sunflowers and this exacerbates an already tight global oilseeds market. High prices will cause an expansion in global oilseed production. In Europe where the value of rapeseed has more than doubled from an average €400/MT to €900/MT, oilseed area is expected to increase by 18 percent, including a 23 percent expansion in France. IHS Markets increased its estimate of prospective U.S. planted soybean area by almost 1 percent to 88.58 million acres. Governments are not leaving oilseed production to marke...
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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.