Russian Grain Markets: 7-11 February 2022 Wheat prices on the Russian domestic market continued to decrease (except for Siberia), while feed barley and corn prices grew. the Russian ruble strengthened so EXW wheat prices expressed in the U.S. dollar grew. Meanwhile, export milling wheat average offer price decreased to $315/MT FOB Black Sea. Average purchase price decreased to RUB 15,800/MT CPT-port Black Sea. Feed barley average export price was stable at $292/MT FOB Black Sea; average purchase price decreased to RUB 15,350/MT. Feed corn average price grew to $284/MT FOB Black Sea while average purchase prices remained at RUB 14,500/MT CPT-port. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices decreased in the Southern region (-RUB 35...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
In agriculture and food processing, we think a lot about infrastructure: transportation and storage, processing and packaging, distribution and delivery. It is a physical system of roads, railroads, and rivers; concrete and steel storage; processing plants, warehouses, and machinery; and, event...
Key Takeaways: The Panama Canal’s draft restrictions and decreasing rainfall outlook are driving big moves in dry bulk markets this week. Panamax markets are sharply lower as the economics of moving freight across the Canal are deteriorating rapidly, leading to support in Supramax vessels...
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.