Brazil’s Soybean Crushers Seek Better Market Access for Soymeal in China The huge increase in Brazil’s soybean exports to China has been a boon for its farmers who are receiving almost $2/bushel more than in the U.S., but it has put local soybean processors in a bind. The Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE) today raised its forecast for the country’s soybean exports in its current marketing year to 79 MMT, which would be far above the total 68 MMT in MY 2017/18 and 52.1 MMT in MY 2016/17. Even though the 2018 crop was a record 122.4 MMT, this significant growth in exports, mostly to China, has reduced the amount available for domestic crushing and substantially raised the price of those soybeans. C...
What You Need to Know Today: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured reelection on Sunday, defeating right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro despite trailing in the first round of voting. The surprise victory triggered a sharp selloff in Brazilian financial market...
The 2026 midterm elections are a week from tomorrow, but early voting has been taking place for weeks. At stake is control of Congress, including the House of Representatives, where all 435 seats are contested, and the Senate, where approximately one-third of the seats are up for election. Farm...
Key Takeaways: Total U.S. crop acres (excluding hay) are forecast to expand fractionally this year due to greater oilseed crop and winter wheat plantings. One of the key drivers of this year’s crop outlook is input costs, and crops with a lower cost profile have an advantage in producers...
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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.