Russian Grain Markets: 3 – 7 April 2023 Russia’s grain markets remained bearish the first week of April aligning with export duty behavior and local currency depreciation. For a few days prices remained stable thanks to domestic currency depreciation but the government was quick to increase the export duty for all grains thus nipping the bull in the bud. Global wheat trade showed a bearish mood. The domestic milling wheat market dropped because stocks are huge and spring planting has started. Moreover, Kazakhstan is about to decide to ban Russian wheat deliveries by road transport. Russian wheat continues enjoying demand internationally and especially in Egypt. On 6 April, GASC bought a huge amount of Russian wheat &ndas...
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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.