Russian Grains Market: 4-8 July 2022 Russia’s harvest continues showing good results thus supporting an optimistic forecast for wheat production during the 2022/23 season which has just started. Rostov Oblast, which is one of the largest producers and exporters of wheat, is expecting a record crop from last year when wheat; production was 12.7 MMT of which 11.5 MMT was winter wheat. Interestingly, Russia continues expansion of grain production further into Siberia. There are not many countries in the world which can considerably increase grain production or at least expand the acreage. Russia still can. Particularly, Siberian grain production in 2021 was the record crop for the past 15 years! Last year, Siberia produced 18.5 MMT of...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
We have described the long-term investment climate in crop and livestock production, using data primarily from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The data provided background on the current investment climate and outlook for agricultural capital formation. Our conclusion was that investment...
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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.