A Rusagrotrans official indicated the effective export duty for wheat will significantly influence the structure of Russia's March grain exports with barley expected to be the dominant crop. Russian Grain Markets Market Trends: 2-6 March 2015 Russia's domestic and export grain markets continued on a downward trend due to the strengthening of the ruble as well as decreasing prices for wheat, corn and barley on the global grain market. GEOGRAPHICALLY: 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices decreased in Ural and Siberia (-$6.30–6.80/MT), the South (-$6/MT), Black Soil (-$5.20/MT), and Volga Valley and Central (-$4.30-4.50/MT).4th grade soft milling wheat prices dropped in the South (-$8/MT), Central and Black Soil (-$5-5.30/MT), Volga Valley...
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...
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USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report was released today. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity amounted to 11.6 million head, 102 percent of last year. Source: USDA, WPI Placements were up, but part of that is attributable to persistent drought c...
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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.