Russian Grain Markets: 11-15 June 2018 Domestic grain prices were influenced by the near beginning of the new season. Although the formation of new prices is active only in the South so far, the previous season prices in other regions stopped growing with the exception of Siberia. 2018 barley is currently sold in the South at $119-135/MT EXW, and the first lots of 2018 feed wheat are sold at $119/MT EXW. Meanwhile, milling wheat export prices kept decreasing to an average $203/MT FOB Black Sea, and purchase prices at seaports declined to $186-189/MT CPT-Black Sea port. The average feed barley export price fell to $195/MT FOB, and the average CPT-Black Sea port price decreased to $173/MT. The average corn export price dropped to $187/MT FO...
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...
Key Takeaways: Dry bulk markets remain mixed with Capesize vessels seeing continued pressure from weaker demand while fixtures and rate strength gradually increases towards the smaller vessel classes. Tanker markets are pulling back from their recent highs as tonnage moves out of the Mid...
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.