Regional News Russia’s government announced the expected grain export quota for the period 15 February through 30 June 2023 of 25 MMT. The quota is up sharply from the 2021/22 quota of 11 MMT. The higher quota comes as the country is expected to export a record volume of grain this year (55.5 MMT), including 45.5 MMT of wheat. Milling Wheat World wheat markets continue to trade the broad trends of stiff competition from the Black Sea, consolidation/strength in CBOT and KCBT futures on concerns for the 2023 crop, and the return of dry weather in Argentina. Other than the weather outlooks for the Northern Hemisphere and old crop exports, there is little fresh news to drive wheat markets. EU wheat prices were stronge...
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.