Russian Grain Markets: 6-10 September 2021 Prices for grain crops in the domestic Russian market mainly increased. In the Ural region and in some areas in the Volga Valley region prices grew more significantly (due to lower average yields), while in the Southern, Central and Black Soil regions prices either increased insignificantly or slightly decreased. Export milling wheat average price increased to $310/MT FOB Black Sea (as wheat export duty kept growing). Average purchase price remained at RUB 16,350/MT CPT-port Black Sea. Feed barley average export price grew to $262/MT FOB Black Sea, average purchase price remained at RUB 15,200/MT. Feed corn average export price for 2021 corn amounted to $260/MT FOB Black Sea. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd...
What You Need to Know Today: Markets got a surprise with a corn yield of 181.2 bushels/acre in the October WASDE, above the average estimate of 177.6 bushels/acre and up from USDA’s September estimate of 178.5 bushels/acre. Although stronger demand is expected to absorb some of the addit...
The USDA has lowered its 2026 red meat production forecasts slightly while forecasting a slight increase in broiler production. Beef is now projected at 24.802 billion pounds, 75 million pounds less than in September. Cow slaughter is expected to be up; however, this will be offset by lower ste...
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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.