SOYBEANS: USDA reduced U.S. soybean production by 69 million bushels to 4.276 billion bushels. Reductions were in Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas. Harvested area is estimated at 86.3 million acres, down 0.3 million from the previous report. Yield is estimated at 49.5 bushels per acre, down 0.6 bushels. The soybean export forecast is reduced 55 million bushels to 2.0 billion, reflecting lower supplies, reduced import demand for China, and a higher export forecast for Brazil. With lower supplies only partly offset by reduced exports, ending stocks are projected at 210 million bushels, down 10 million from the previous forecast. The U.S. season-average soybean price for 2022/23 is projected at $14.20 per bushel,...
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.