While the record pace of Brazilian and Argentine soybean export sales in 2015 continues, Korea's largest feed miller (Nonghyup Feed, Inc.) yesterday passed on all offers to purchase South American soymeal for fall shipment. Ukraine Expects Big Soybean Crop and Wants to Export Soymeal to China Ukraine's Ministry of Agriculture is forecasting the country's 2015 soybean output at 4.1 MMT, an increase of about 5 percent over last year. It indicates that farmers planted 2.1 million hectares, up from 1.8 million hectares a year ago. 2.76 million hectares of soybeans were harvested in 2013 and 2.41 million hectares in 2012.The Ukrainian government is seeking to export soymeal to China this year after a recent visit by a delegation from tha...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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.