Milling Wheat The Black Sea market was slightly weaker last week. While Russia’s wheat stocks were reported to be 25 percent lower than on the same date last year, the export pace remains at about 1 MMT week with domestic prices about unchanged. Today the market was focused on the Ukraine/Russia conflict that resulted in the closure of the Kerch Strait during the weekend. However, the traffic via the strait has resumed this morning, and the incident had a very limited impact on the wheat market. Last week the Egyptian GASC bought 120,000 MT of U.S. SRW at $220.90/MT FOB (equivalent to $253.78/MT CNF), 60,000 MT of Russian at $233.50/MT FOB (equivalent to $250.30 CNF) and 60,000 MT of Romanian wheat at $238.36/MT FOB (equivalent to $...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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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.