Ukraine's domestic milling wheat prices grew slightly. Thus, traders’ raised their bids to $142-172/MT EXW in order to accumulate necessary stocks before the holiday season. Meanwhile, processors’ bids remained stable at $155-172/MT EXW (3rd and 4th grades) and $159-172/MT CPT. Russian Grain Markets Market Trends: 14-18 December 2015 Grain prices in the European part of the Russian market were more or less stable during the week in review, while those in the Asian part decreased. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices were stable in Central and the South, but they decreased in Black Soil, Volga Valley and Ural (-$0.40-0.50/MT) as well as Siberia (-$5.60/MT).4th grade milling wheat prices dropped in Central, Black Soil and V...
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...
Monday, 25 May is a U.S. holiday, and both the markets and our office will be closed. Please note that the next issue of Ag Perspectives will be published on Tuesday, 26 May. The WPI staff wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend...
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.