Russia's rapeseed exports showed a notable change in MY 2016/17. Meanwhile, Ukrainian milling wheat prices began to fall, mainly because of the revised USDA forecast for world production. However, another contributing factor was related to the latest GASC tender. Russian Grain Markets: 14-18 August 2017 Market Trends Prices decreased at a higher rate than the week before. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices fell in the South (-$4.20/MT), Central and Black Soil (-$2.20-2.40/MT), Volga Valley (-$5.00/MT), Ural (-$3.30/MT), and Siberia (-$0.70/MT).4th grade soft milling wheat prices dropped in Central and Siberia (-$2.50/MT), Black Soil and Volga Valley (-$3.30-3.50/MT), the South (-$7.00/MT), and Ural (-$5.30/MT).5th grade...
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.