Market Trends: 26-30 January 2015During the week in review, wheat prices moved in different directions as prices for other grain crops increased (in RUB expression). On 1 February, the export duty for wheat went into effect.GEOGRAPHICALLY:3rd grade soft milling wheat prices increased in Central and Black Soil (+$0.70-1.20/MT), Volga Valley (+$3.20/MT), and Ural and Siberia (+$8.20-9/MT). However, they continued to decrease in the South (-$2/MT).4th grade soft milling wheat prices also grew in Central and Black Soil (+$1.10-1.60/MT), Volga Valley (+$2.70/MT), and Ural and Siberia (+$4.60-5/MT). They declined in the South (-$1.20/MT).5th grade feed wheat prices increased in the South and Central (+$2.30/MT), Black Soil and Ural (+$1/MT), Volg...
What You Need to Know Today: Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans continued to accelerate, with USDA reporting another 558 KMT sold to China and 236 KMT to unknown destinations. Combined with sales announced Wednesday and Thursday, the latest purchases bring the three-day total to approximately...
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.