Russian Grain Markets: 29 April-3 May 2019 There were only two working days during the week in review, but prices mostly followed a downward trend during that period. The average milling wheat export price fell to $210/MT FOB Black Sea, and the average purchase price declined to $187/MT CPT-Black Sea port. Meanwhile, the average feed barley export price dropped to $188/MT FOB, but the average purchase price was stable at $168/MT CPT-Black Sea port. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices decreased in Central and the South (-RUB 85/MT) as well as Black Soil (-RUB 20-30/MT), but they remained unchanged in other regions. 4th grade soft milling wheat prices fell in Central (-RUB 50/MT) and other regions (-RUB 15-20/MT). 5th gra...
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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.