Russian Grain Markets: 21 – 25 April 2025 Crop Outlook 2025 The spring planting campaign in Russia is in full swing. Fifty-six regions of Russia are reportedly planting spring crops, and this season is showing much better speed than last year. To date, around 10.5 million hectares (Mha) are already planted, up 1.3 Mha from last year. Particularly, spring grains were planted over 6.3 Mha versus 4.8 Mha a year ago this time. Spring wheat is planted over 1.7 Mha, spring barley – 2.3 Mha, corn – 600,000 ha, and rice 14,100 ha. Oilseeds planting is also underway; to date around 2.2 Mha of oilseeds is planted. The Ministry of Agriculture forecasts this year’s spring planting acreage at around 84 Mha which is up around 1 Mh...
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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.