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June 19, 2023
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July 19, 2017
Grain Market Outlook
n MY 2007/08 compares to the most recent USDA projections of 260.6 mmt ending stocks and 35.4%
ending stocks‐to‐use projected for “new crop” MY 2017/18. The present “large crop‐over supply” situation in
World and U.S. wheat markets continues to have a prevailing limiting influence on U.S. and World wheat prices
– even with recent drought‐fueled moves higher in the market.
Wheat Protein Supply Concerns & the “World Less China” Market Situation
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The broader “large crop‐over supply‐low price” situation in the World wheat market may be “obscuring” at
least a couple of other important market issues.
First, while the quantity of wheat available in the World is plentiful, the available supply of high protein milling
wheat is typically less so. This factor helps exports of U.S. Hard Red Spring (HRS) wheat (higher protein – good
quality) relative to World wheat export competitors. The drought conditions now occurring in the U.S. and
Canadian hard red spring wheat producing regions has raised the demand and price premiums offered for high
protein wheat supplies – whether they are from hard red winter wheat supplies or elsewhere.
Second, while the aggregate supply of wheat in World markets has grown, the supply of wheat from a “World
Less China” perspective is projected to have actually “contracted” or “diminished” further in “new crop” MY
2017/18. “World Less China” wheat percent stocks‐to‐use have declined to the tightest level since at least MY
2008/09 when U.S. wheat cash prices averaged $5.70 /bu. If this “China supply isolation factor” eventually
leads to noticeably tighter global supplies of available‐exportable wheat in coming months, then it will likely
have a significant positive impact U.S. wheat market prices in “new crop” MY 2017/18.
However, unless there is this change in the broader, overriding focus of the World wheat market away from
aggregate global supplies to available “World Less China” supplies – it is likely that significant World wheat
production problems and/or trade disruptions would need to occur in year 2017 in order to have wheat prices
recover significantly in later 2017. Such disruptions elsewhere would likely cause the market to then focus on
the limited availability of food quality wheat outside of China in the World market. Also, ongoing strength in
the U.S. dollar exchange rate continues to be a negative factor limiting the competitive affordability of U.S.
wheat exports in World markets.
USDA U.S. Wheat Supply/Demand Forecast for “New Crop” MY 2017/18
The USDA released their wheat production, supply‐demand and price projections for “new crop” MY 2017/18
in the July 12th Crop Production & World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports.
United States’ wheat plantings are projected to be 46.567 million acres (ma) – down from 50.154 ma in “old
crop” MY 2016/17 to the lowest level since the early 1900s. Harvested acres are forecast to be 38.115 ma
(83.72% harvested‐to‐planted) – down from 43.890 ma a year ago. The 2017 U.S. average wheat yield is
projected at 46.2 bu/ac, down from the 2016 record of 52.6 bu/acre.
Wheat production in the U.S. in 2017 is forecast to be 1.760 billion bushels (bb), down from 2.310 bb in 2015.
Projected “new crop” MY 2017/18 total supplies are 3.084 bb (down from 3.403 bb in “old crop” MY 2016/17),
with total use of 2.146 bb (down from 2.219 bb in “old crop” MY 2016/17).
The USDA projected “new crop” MY 2017/18 ending stocks to be 938 million bushels (mb) (vs 1.184 bb a year
ago), with percent ending stocks‐to‐use of 43.7% S/U (vs 53.4% last year and 50.0% the previous year). United
States’ wheat prices are projected to average $4.80 /bu – up from $3.89 in “old crop” MY 2016/17, but down
from $4.89 /bu in MY 2015/16, and $5.99 /bu in MY 2014/15. It is estimated by Kansas State University that
these USDA projections for “new crop” MY 2016/17 have a 50% probability of occurring.
Three Alternative KSU U.S. Wheat S/D Forecast for “New Crop” MY 2017/18
To represent possible alternative outcomes from the USDA’s July 12th projection, three potential KSU‐
Scenarios for U.S. wheat supply‐demand and prices are presented for “new crop” MY 2017/18.
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KSU Scenario 1) “5 Year Avg Yield” Scenario (20% probability) assumes for “new crop” MY 2017/18 that the
following occurs. This scenario assumes that there will be 46.657 ma planted, 83.72% harvested‐to‐planted,
38.115 ma harvested, 45.8 bu/ac 5‐year average yield, 1.746 bb production, 3.030 bb total supplies, 975 mb
exports, 150 mb feed & residual use, 2.146 bb total use, 884 mb ending stocks, 41.19% S/U, & $5.05 /bu U.S.
wheat average price.
KSU Scenario 2) “Higher U.S. Wheat Exports” Scenario (20% probability) assumes the following for “new
crop” MY 2017/18. Planted acres of 46.657 ma are associated with 38.115 ma harvested, 45.8 bu/ac 5‐year
average yield, 1.746 bb production, 3.030 bb total supplies, 1.200 bb exports (due to foreign crop problems),
125 mb feed & residual use, 2.346 bb total use, 684 mb ending stocks, 29.16% S/U, & $6.00 /bu U.S. wheat
average price;
KSU Scenario 3) “Short U.S. Wheat Crop” Scenario (10% probability) assumes the following for “new crop” MY
2017/18. Planted acres of 46.657 ma, 83.72% harvested‐to‐planted, 38.115 ma harvested, 40.2 bu/ac low
“crop stress” yield, 1.633 bb production, 2.917 bb total supplies, 975 mb exports, 125 mb feed & residual use,
2.121 bb total use, 796 mb ending stocks, 37.53% S/U, & $5.35 /bu U.S. wheat average price.
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January 1, 2009
Animal ID & Traceability
Primary author: Jeri Stroade
12. OTHER BENEFITS OF NAIS ADOPTION …
Estimated costs of adopting bookend or full tracing NAIS practices by
species for an average operation in selected industry segments are
summarized in table 1. A bookend system refers to simply identifying the
animal individually or in group/lot fashion at its birth premises and then
terminating the record at the packing plant when the animal is
processed, with no intermittent tracing or recording of animal
movement. A full tracing system refers to the bookend plus also tracing
and recording movements of animals (individually or by group depending
on species) through their lifetime as they change ownership.
For a typical dairy cow operation, total cost of a bookend system would
be $2.47 per cow and full tracing $3.43 per cow annually. A large portion
of the costs for dairy cow operations are costs of individual electronic
tags for calves for a bookend system plus scanning costs for a full tracing
system. The typical beef cow operation would incur higher cost than the
typical dairy producer with a $3.92 per cow bookend adoption cost and a
$4.22 per cow full tracing cost. Other segments of the beef industry (i.e.,
backgrounders, feedlots, auction markets, and packers) incur much
smaller costs than the cow sector because their main costs are replacing
lost tags for a bookend and incurring scanning costs for full tracing.
Porcine adoption costs of bookend and full tracing are much smaller than
bovine costs because porcine utilize primarily group identification by pen
or lot rather than individual animal identification (with the exception of
cull breeding animals that use individual identification). For a typical
farrow‐to‐wean operation, annual costs of a bookend system are $0.01
per animal sold and a fully tracing system costs $0.025 per animal sold.
Ovine operations would use group identification for lambs but individual
identification for breeding animals. Annual costs to adopt a bookend
system would be $0.71 per animal sold and to adopt a full tracing system
would be $1.07 per animal sold.
Poultry operations would utilize exclusively lot identification systems and
have relatively low adoption costs of about $0.02 per animal sold
annually for layers and $0.001 per animal sold for broilers.
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December 27, 2017
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I. U.S. Wheat Market Situation & Outlook
December 12th USDA Crop Production & WASDE Reports
On December 12th the USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) released its December 2017
World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report – containing U.S. and World wheat supply‐
demand and price projections for the 2015/16, “old crop” 2015/16, and “new crop” 2017/18 marketing years
(MY) for wheat. “New crop” MY 2017/18 for U.S. wheat began on September 1, 2017 and will last through
August 31, 2018.
On November 28, 2017 the USDA released its preliminary Long Term Agricultural Projections of grain
market supply‐demand and prices through year 2027. These included the USDA forecasts for U.S. Wheat
supply‐demand and prices for “next crop” 2018/19 and succeeding years. These Long Term Agricultural
Projections by the USDA will be updated at the February 2018 USDA Outlook Conference, and are available at
the following web address: https://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/projections/.
On January 12, 2018, the USDA will release its Annual Crop Production Summary and Crop Production
reports, providing updated estimates for 2017 total production of U.S. wheat and other U.S. crops. On that
same day the USDA will also release its quarterly Grain Stocks, annual Winter Wheat & Canola Seedings, and
updated World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports.
CME Kansas Hard Red Winter Wheat DEC 2017 & JULY 2018 Futures
MARCH 2018 CME Kansas Hard Red Winter (HRW) Wheat futures declined from highs of $6.06 and $6.04
¼ per bushel on July 6th and 11th, 2017 down to a low of $4.38 ¼ on August 29th. After trending up to a high of
$4.77 ½ on September 27th, MARCH 2018 HRW Wheat futures trended steadily lower of $4.10 ½ ‐ $4.10 ¾ on
December 11‐12, 2017, before trending back up to a high $4.25 ½ on December 21st. MARCH 2018 HRW
Wheat futures closed at $4.22 ¼ on Friday, December 22nd (Figure 1).
Figure 1. MARCH 2018 & JULY 2018 CME Kansas Wheat Futures Daily Price Charts …
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