Russian seaports increased the volume of grain shipments in January 2014 to 1.2 MMT, 2.9 times more than the total in January 2013. Russian Grain Markets: 5-12 February 2014 Grain Market Interventions Regular stock exchange trading was held 11-12 February within context of the grain market intervention in Russia. The Intervention Fund purchased a total of 2,700 MT of the 12,555 MT of grains that were offered on 11 February and the 12,015 MT that were offered on 12 February.Since the beginning of the stock exchange trading (15 October 2013), the Intervention Fund has purchased 600,210 MT of grains for the total amount of RUB 3.521 billion. Market Trends: 3-7 February 2014 The Russian grain market prices followed the same trend as the pr...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Key Takeaways: Argentina is on pace for a record corn crop and record exports in the current marketing year, with abundant supplies likely to keep the country highly competitive in global export markets. Argentina’s record exportable surplus is allowing it to offer highly competitive pri...
From WPI Consulting
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.