Russian Grain Markets: 6-10 April 2026 During the week in review, the Russian grains market was volatile. Domestic sentiment remained bullish, supporting an upward trend; however, the export market in the south stayed bearish. Given Russia’s export-driven structure, weak export demand is likely to offset domestic strength. A stronger ruble reinforces the bearish outlook, despite declining export duties, which remain largely technical this season rather than restrictive. Russia ratified an additional grain export quota of 5 MMT, valid through 30 June 2026, bringing the total seasonal quota to 25 MMT. The decision followed revised 2025 production data, with total grain output at 141.2 MMT, up from 125.9 MMT a year earlier. Wheat product...
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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.