Russian Grain Markets: 25-29 March 2019 The average grain prices on the domestic market continued to drop in RUB expression for the most part. However, the decrease in USD expression was more significant due to weakening of the ruble. The average milling wheat sea export price fell $2/MT to $226/MT FOB Black Sea, and the purchase prices grew in RUB expression but decreased in USD expression to $199-200/MT CPT-Black Sea port. The average feed barley export price dropped to $206/MT FOB, while the purchase price was within $169-174/MT CPT-Black Sea port. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices decreased in Volga Valley, Central and the South (-RUB 65/MT), Black Soil (-RUB 110/MT), and Siberia and Ural (-RUB 115/MT). 4th grade s...
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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.