Russian Grain Markets: 16-22 January 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,793 MT of grains for exchange trading on 16 January 2013 and offered an additional 64,976 MT of grains on 22 January 2013.As of 22 January, there have been 286 accredited participants during the course of the public commodity interventions. Since the beginning of these interventions in 2012, the public intervention fund has sold 1.384 MMT of grain on the stock exchange for a general sum of 11.447 billion Russian rubles.The epicenter of intervention fund selling was moved from Altai Krai to the Orenburgskaya oblast. According to experts, this was due to the gradual reduction of Siberian stocks. Since the start of 2013, grain prices at gra...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
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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.