Russian Grain Markets: 3-7 February 2020 Grain prices on the domestic Russian market mainly grew due to demand from both exporters and processors, however milling wheat prices slightly decreased in the Southern region reacting to downward trends in export price developments. Export milling wheat average price decreased to $223/MT FOB Black Sea. Purchase prices decreased to RUB 13,100-13,300/MT. Feed barley average export price meanwhile grew to $195/MT FOB Black Sea, purchase prices remained at RUB 10,800/MT CPT-port Black Sea. Feed corn average export price decreased to $182/MT FOB Black Sea, the average purchase price remained at RUB 10,550/MT CPT-port Black Sea. Geographically 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices decreased slight...
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...
From WPI Consulting
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.