Ukraine's domestic feed corn prices declined as a result of the stronger UAH, larger offer and lower export offer prices. Meanwhile, prices at the Ukrainian Black Sea (UBS) ports dropped to $155-170/MT CPT-port. FOB offer prices decreased to $165-170/MT. Russian Grain Markets Planting Update Spring crops were planted on 241,700 hectares as of 4 March 2016. Market Trends: 29 February-4 March 2016 Grain prices at the Russian market decreased in RUB expression during the week in review, while they mainly grew in USD expression due to strengthening of the ruble. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices decreased in Black Soil (-$0.80/MT), the South (-$0.60/MT), Central (-$0.50/MT), and Volga Valley and Siberia (-$0.20/MT), but...
What You Need to Know Today: After a period of limited activity, USDA reported a sizeable 613 KMT in soybean export sales, including 330 KMT to China and 283 KMT to unknown destinations, potentially also China. The purchases represent a meaningful pickup in demand and bring China closer to ful...
The Trump import plan for 300,000 MT of beef supplies used for ground beef, i.e., lean trim, from September through November has, according to Secretary Brooke Rollins, brought some relief to beef prices. The Executive Order states that the Secretary of Agriculture will analyze and review the m...
Key Takeaways: Texas illustrates the assumptions underlying the 2025 FMMO reform; Idaho exposes their limitations. The Southwest order blend (roughly 27 percent Class I, 32 percent Class III and 31 percent Class IV) exposes Texas producers to every lever USDA adjusted, with a near-neutral proj...
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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.