Russian Grain Markets: 23-27 October 2017 Market Trends Grain prices showed little change as they mostly either remained stable or slightly decreased. GEOGRAPHICALLY 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices grew slightly in the South (+$0.20/MT) and fell slightly in Central (-$0.20/MT), and they remained stable in all other regions. 4th grade soft milling wheat prices dropped in Central (-$0.60/MT) and Siberia (-$1.30/MT) as well as Ural and the South (-$0.80-0.90/MT), but they were steady in Volga Valley and Black Soil. 5th grade wheat prices fluctuated insignificantly. They were stable in Central, Black Soil, Volga Valley and Siberia while slightly decreasing in the South and Ural (-$0.20/MT). Feed barley prices were stable in all...
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We have described the long-term investment climate in crop and livestock production, using data primarily from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The data provided background on the current investment climate and outlook for agricultural capital formation. Our conclusion was that investment...
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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.