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Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grains Market: 25 – 29 August 2025 Bearish sentiments prevail on the Russian market. Most likely the bottom price levels are near for most of the grains except corn whose season started in September. Bearish trend is a tradition for this part of the season as harvesting is underway and supply is ample, despite delayed harvesting in Volga Valley, Urals, and Siberia. Russian analysts (IKAR) once again increased the forecast for wheat production adding 500,000 MT, bringing it to 86 MMT as well as barley production by 300,000 MT to reach 18.3 MMT. According to IKAR, the overall grain crop in Russia may reach 132.8 MMT. Interestingly, a week ago the same IKAR increased the forecast to 130.5 MMT and has now added 1.5 MMT more...

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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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