Russian Grain Markets: 15-19 April 2019 While grain prices on the domestic market mostly dropped in RUB expression, they grew slightly in USD expression due to the strengthening of the ruble. Meanwhile, the average milling wheat sea export price fell to $222/MT FOB Black Sea, and purchase prices decreased to $190-192/MT CPT-Black Sea port. The average feed barley export price declined to $192/MT FOB, and the average purchase price dropped to $170/MT CPT-Black Sea port. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices fell in Central (-RUB 135/MT), the South, Ural and Black Soil (-RUB 20-30/MT), and Volga Valley and Siberia (-RUB 50/MT). 4th grade soft milling wheat prices grew in Central (+RUB 20/MT) but decreased in Black Soil, Ural...
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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.