Regional News China is now Ukraine’s larges trading partner, notably expanding its agricultural product exports. Ukraine is the largest supplier of sunflower oil to China, followed by Russia. Rains have finally arrived across western Europe that will aid winter crop planting. The rains are too late to help the European corn crop and conditions remain too dry across Ukraine. Russia’s southern regions, including Krasnodar, Stavropol, and Rostov, are also in need of rains by mid-October before grain product may start to fall. South Korean-owned Posco International completed construction of an export facility in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Nikolayev. Posco owns a 75 percent stake in the venture, which is expected...
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.