Russian Grain Markets: 1-7 May 2012 GRAINS AND PRODUCTS Planting Updates as of 4 May Bashkortostan Republic: Spring grain crops have been planted on 661,000 ha.Tatarstan Republic: Spring grain crops have been planted on 798,400 ha, including barley on 355,500 ha (100 percent of the target) and wheat on 334,800 ha (71 percent of the target).Orenburg Oblast: Spring grain and grain legumes have been planted on 614,200 ha (26 percent of the target).Altayskiy Krai: Spring grain and grain legume crops have been planted on 545,000 ha (16 percent of the target), including 118,000 ha of wheat, 72,000 ha of barley and 154,000 ha of sunflower seed.Ulyanovsk Oblast: Spring grain crops and grain legume crops have been planted on 145,600 ha, i...
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.