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Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Regional Analysis

Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Egypt has a program that it says will reduce wheat imports and cut subsidies on bread. The plan is to blend wheat flour with local corn and sorghum flour. Savings, it is said, could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. However, millers and bakers say that this blending could result in poor quality flour and lower quality bread. As presented to millers and bakers, starting April 2025, 20 percent of the flour for subsidized bread will be from corn and sorghum. Several years ago, Egypt had a program for blending corn flour with wheat flour but industry pressure caused the program to be cancelled.   Egypt’s GASC reportedly booked 510,000 M...

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Russian Grains Market: 29 December 2025–02 January 2026 Russia’s grain market remained bearish during the final week of December, with most fundamentals continuing to pressure prices and preventing authorities from setting higher export duties. The country will remain heavily export...

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Mar 26 Corn closed at $4.44/bushel, down $0.005 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Wheat closed at $5.105/bushel, down $0.02 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Soybeans closed at $10.5625/bushel, down $0.0575 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Soymeal closed at $299.5/short ton, down $0.4...

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Black Sea Regional Analysis

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

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Mar 26 Corn closed at $4.44/bushel, down $0.005 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Wheat closed at $5.105/bushel, down $0.02 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Soybeans closed at $10.5625/bushel, down $0.0575 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Soymeal closed at $299.5/short ton, down $0.4...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Weaker Crude Oil Sinks CBOT Despite Soybean Sales to China

The CBOT on Tuesday failed to follow Monday’s dramatic technical strength and corn, the soy complex, and wheat all settled lower for the day. A sharp pullback in crude oil prices was primarily responsible for the soy complex weakness as it eliminated a key piece of support for soyoil. In...

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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.

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