Ukraine's milling wheat and feed wheat prices grew on the domestic market because of three factors. Meanwhile, the country reported record productions of both grain and sunflower seed in 2016, and the latter means sunflower oil exports could rise even further. Russian Grain Markets Market Trends: 9-13 January 2017 Trade activity was sluggish, and grain prices again fluctuated insignificantly. They did grow in USD expression, however, due to strengthening of the ruble. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices decreased in the South and Siberia (-$1/MT) but remained stable in all other regions.4th grade soft milling wheat prices fell in the South (-$1/MT), Black Soil (-$0.50/MT) and Central (-$1.30/MT), but they remained steady...
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...
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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.