Regional News The European Investment Bank will provide a €50 million loan for the construction of a new grain terminal in the Bulgarian port of Varna. The project investor is Logistic Center Varna AED -which is part of one of Bulgaria’s largest grain traders, the Buildcom Group – and will start operation in Q2 2026. The EU is considering possibly agreeing to reconnect a Russian bank to the global SWIFT network as a concession to Russia in advance of talks to renew the Black Sea export deal. The agreement reportedly is for the Russian Agricultural Bank, a subsidiary of the sanctioned Rosselkhozbank. Western and northern Europe are again facing a two-week weather forecast of above-average temperatures an...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
Key Takeaways: The Middle East and North Africa's arid climate and limited water resources have created a structural dependence on imported wheat. Government wheat tenders in major importing countries serve as important benchmarks for global trade, providing insight into exporter competitivene...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Bangladesh is reported to have finalized the purchase of 270,000 MT of wheat, including 220,000 MT of U.S. wheat. The U.S. wheat is priced at $322/MT, with an additional 50,000 MT of wheat at $297.90/MT through an international te...
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.