Russian Grain Markets: 30 October-5 November 2013 Planting Updates As of 31 October, Russian farmers planted winter grain crops for the 2014 harvest on 14 million hectares. Grain Market Interventions A regular stock exchange trading was held within the context of grain market intervention in Russia on 6 November. The Intervention Fund purchased 59,940 MT of grains, the entire offered volume.From the beginning of the stock exchange trading (15 October), the Intervention Fund purchased 235,170 MT of grains for the total amount of RUB 1.413 billion. Market Trends: 28 October-1 November 2013 The domestic grain market trends began to change. GEOGRAPHICALLY: 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices slightly decreased in the South. They inc...
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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.