Russian Grain Markets: 11-15 June 2018 Domestic grain prices were influenced by the near beginning of the new season. Although the formation of new prices is active only in the South so far, the previous season prices in other regions stopped growing with the exception of Siberia. 2018 barley is currently sold in the South at $119-135/MT EXW, and the first lots of 2018 feed wheat are sold at $119/MT EXW. Meanwhile, milling wheat export prices kept decreasing to an average $203/MT FOB Black Sea, and purchase prices at seaports declined to $186-189/MT CPT-Black Sea port. The average feed barley export price fell to $195/MT FOB, and the average CPT-Black Sea port price decreased to $173/MT. The average corn export price dropped to $187/MT FO...
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...
Key Market Insights Macro markets delivered a full whipsaw today. Early in the session, crude oil had rallied back above $100/barrel as traders priced renewed concern over the U.S.-Iran standoff and potential supply risk through the Strait of Hormuz. That strength helped pull grains off their o...
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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.