Russian Grain Markets: 13–17 November 2023 The Russian market remained quite volatile with European Russia bearish and the Asian region bullish thanks to solid demand from Kazakhstan. However, the gap between the European and Asian parts of the country is getting smaller and smaller as the huge crop puts pressure on the market, and a stronger RUB keeps domestic trading low. At the same time, export duties have become smaller as they are being calculated and charged in RUB and are not directly linked to the dollar. Kazakh demand will come to an end probably by the end of the year; only the highest quality milling wheat is in demand while low protein is no longer wanted. Farmers seem to be in no hurry to sell their crop for cheap...
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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.