Russian Grain Markets: 12 - 16 October 2020 Domestic market wheat prices grew significantly; barley, corn and rye prices also increased but at a smaller rate. Meanwhile, export milling wheat average price grew to $251/MT FOB Black Sea. The average purchase price grew to RUB 17,800 /MT. Feed barley average export price grew to $207/MT FOB Black Sea, while the average purchase price remained at RUB 14,600/MT CPT-port Black Sea. New harvest feed corn average export price increased to $217/MT FOB Black Sea. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices grew in all regions, most of all in the Volga Valley region (+RUB 890/MT), but also in Central and Black Soil (+RUB 435-450/MT), Southern (+RUB 235/MT), Siberia and Ural (+RUB 130-1...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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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.