Russian Grain Markets: 3-7 August 2020 Wheat prices on the domestic Russian market moved in different directions. The changes were moderate or insignificant. Corn prices slightly decreased. Feed barley prices mainly decreased. Meanwhile on the export market, milling wheat average 2020 yield price decreased to $205/MT FOB Black Sea. The average purchase price slightly decreased to RUB 13,700-14,000/MT. 2020 feed barley average export price decreased to $188/MT FOB Black Sea, and purchase price grew to RUB 11,800-12,000/MT CPT-port Black Sea. Feed corn average export price didn’t change and amounted to $184/MT FOB Black Sea. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices grew in the Central region (+RUB 50/MT), Black S...
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Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt’s Ministry of Supply reports that it will begin the sale of imported wheat through the Egyptian Mercantile Exchange. Sales are expected to be mainly to private-sector flour mills and are intended to stabilize wheat and...
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.