Russian Grain Market: 29 February – 6 March 2012 GRAIN COMMODITIES AND FLOUR Different price trends took place last week in Russia's domestic grain market, but the general mood was positive. Wheat prices were increasing everywhere, most of all in Siberia and unexpectedly least of all in the South. This unusual price growth by region can be explained by the active demand for Siberian grain from European buyers and high prices for Kazakh grain. Southern regions experienced a decline in export demand. That combined with problems in the Black Sea ports and Asov Sea ports to make export trade activity in this region rather sluggish.On 6 March 2012, the Russian government held a new auction of grains from state purchasing interventions. Grain...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
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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.