Ukraine's State Statistic Service reports that total stocks of grain in the Ukrainian enterprises that store and process grain amounted to 23.4 MMT on 1 September - 15 percent more than in 2013. Russian Grain Markets Harvesting Update The 16 September harvest report from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation reported that 33.2 million hectares (71.2 percent of the target) of grains and legumes have produced 87.3 million MT of grain, including 52.5 million MT of wheat (average yield of 2.9 MT/hectare); 19.4 million MT of barley (average yield 2.43 MT/hectare); and 2.5 million MT of corn (average yield of 4.88 MT/hectare). Rapeseed was harvested from 659,000 hectares, and the volume produced was 1.1 million MT (average yiel...
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...
Key Market Insights Geopolitical Limbo: Geopolitical risk remained a key driver across global commodity markets today. President Trump stated that the Iran memorandum of understanding is not yet final and warned that military action could resume if negotiations fail. Both sides continue w...
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.