Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Lebanon officially rejected the first shipment of 26,000 MT of corn from the Ukraine on the M/V Razoni and further reports advise that the vessel will now discharge in Syria after a stop in Turkey. Ukraine will not ship grain to Syria due to Syria’s recognition of Luhansk and Donetsk, in the Ukraine, as independent. Saudi Arabia’s imports of animal feed barley are forecast by USDA-FAS in Riyadh to increase in 2022/23 by more than 1 MMT to 5 MMT. However, barley imports are still expected to be down by about 2 MMT compared to 2020/21. Much of the drop in barley imports has been due to high barley prices and the more competitive prices of processe...
What You Need to Know Today: Crude oil prices extended their rally today, supported by several developments, including escalating Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure and growing concerns about supply disruptions. The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to remove 50 perc...
Regional News Dry weather across the UK and Europe is becoming increasingly concerning for the 2027 crops as planting intentions are lowered amid dry soil conditions. Delayed sowing or establishment under adverse conditions could leave crops more vulnerable to frost/freeze events and dise...
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.