Russian Grain Market: 19-23 March 2012 GRAIN COMMODITIES AND FLOUR The Russian domestic grain market showed continued price trends from the previous week, but the price difference by region was more obvious. Prices fell at a slower rate in the South, while price fell at a faster rate in Volga Valley. All prices, except those for 3rd grade wheat, increased slightly in Central and Siberia. In the rest of Russia, prices did not change compared to the week before. The domestic market is likely to follow current trends until there is more information on the dates and volumes about sales from the state intervention fund (i.e. until the beginning of April 2012).In the export market, demand for grain products may increase as small river ports r...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Key Market Insights Geopolitical Limbo: Geopolitical risk remained a key driver across global commodity markets today. President Trump stated that the Iran memorandum of understanding is not yet final and warned that military action could resume if negotiations fail. Both sides continue w...
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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.