Regional News Iraq tendered for 50 KMT of milling wheat last week and the lowest offer received was for Ukrainian wheat at $386/MT CNF. U.S. wheat was offered at $551.80/MT CNF with offers from Canada, Australia, Romania, Poland, and Lithuania ranging from $424-498.50/MT CNF. Offers for Russian wheat were not considered due to the terms of the tender. Last week, Tunisia bought 150 KMT of soft wheat at $383-388/MT CNF along with 100 KMT of durum wheat priced from $505-522/MT CNF. Wheat is reportedly piling up in Egypt’s ports due to payment issues. Sources say between 800-900 KMT of wheat is in ports waiting for payments to clear. Reports indicate that 80 percent of Egypt’s wheat mills cannot operate to produ...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
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...
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.