Russian Grain Markets: 5 - 9 December 2022 Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia is revamping its positions on grains and oilseeds markets thanks to a record crop, high demand for wheat, and other agricultural commodities. Sanctions, increased insurance, and war risks have had little effect so far on the dynamics of exports. Russia may set a new world record on the wheat export market becoming the unprecedented leader with a potential of 43.5 MMT. Exports for all grains from Russia may reach 55 MMT (excluding flour) which will be a domestic record. Sanctions slowed down export dynamics and during July-September logistics issues kept exports low. However, in October Russia regained its weight on the global arena of...
What You Need to Know Today: The corn and soybean markets closed slightly higher in low-volume trade. The wheat market was mixed, with HRW continuing its downward trek on improved moisture. As expected, the bearish cattle on feed report drove down cattle prices and pulled hogs down with it. Mi...
Key Market Insights Macro markets delivered a full whipsaw today. Early in the session, crude oil had rallied back above $100/barrel as traders priced renewed concern over the U.S.-Iran standoff and potential supply risk through the Strait of Hormuz. That strength helped pull grains off their o...
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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.