Russian Grain Markets: 29 January–2 February 2024 The market was bearish following global trends and huge stocks will continue putting pressure on the market. It is hard to figure out why the government would further increase export duties seeing that the global trend is bearish and export prices are falling. Reference prices used by the government are 60 days old. The only explanation could be a weaker ruble but this applies only to trading in local currency, what about trading in U.S. dollars for export? How would traders do their job keeping their margins? Obviously, there are fewer and fewer international traders on the market and Russian mega farms and traders have sufficient margins to accept any moves the government makes duri...
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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.