Russian Grains Market: 3–7 November 2025 During the first week of November ,the market was predominantly bearish with rare temporary recoveries in individual regions. Wheat export prices remained stable in European Russia. The Asian part of Russia shows appreciation of prices because of adverse weather. Interestingly, corn prices in Russia continued marching downwards because of positive corn crop forecasts. Harvesting is under way and supply is ample now. During July-October, Russia exported 20.6 MMT of grains which is ¼ less than in 2024 (27.3 MMT). Particularly, wheat exports dropped from 23.3 MMT down to 18.2 MMT. October exports dropped from 8 MMT in 2024 to 6.45 MMT. Wheat dropped from 7.02 MMT to 6.02 MMT. Barley ex...
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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.