Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Afghanistan’s agriculture will benefit from a $65 million donation by the Asian Development Bank to the United Nations FAO to raise Afghanistan’s local food production, including wheat cultivation, livestock feed production, and veterinary support. The funding should help 150,000 small wheat producers and 100,000 marginal livestock farmers. Pakistan is seeing wheat flour shortages in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, and is having to move in wheat for milling from rural areas in Sindh province. 107,000 MT of wheat will be moved in for both February and March. Pakistan farm associations are saying wheat production could drop by 40 percent due to a short...
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...
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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.