The Russian Grain Union supports the government resolution to allow GM seeds for use in sowing as of 1 June 2014. Russian Grain Markets: 12-18 February 2014 Grain Market Interventions A stock exchange trading was held on 18 February within context of the grain market intervention in Russia. The Intervention Fund purchased 9,855 MT of the 29,970 MT of grains that were offered for the total amount of $1,459,480.Since the beginning of the stock exchange trading (15 October 2013), the Intervention Fund has purchased 610,065 MT of grains for the total amount of RUB 3.573 billion ($100,514,209).The Russian Ministry of Agriculture made a resolution last week to end the season's grain market purchasing interventions on 19 February. Market Trend...
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...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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.