Russian Grain Markets: 7-11 November 2022 Planting Update Russia’s winter crop is planted, however, due to adverse weather conditions farmers failed to plant about 1 Mha showing only 17.5 Mha versus 18.1 Mha a year ago. In addition to poor weather conditions, farmers who realized Russia has a record crop this year and prices plummeted are possibly looking forward to a new season with a higher margin spring crop. We shall see. One thing is clear, the Russian economy under global sanctions is experiencing difficulties. However, not all major agricultural market players left Russia. There are still many companies who suspended further investment and development but had made massive investments in Russian markets earlier and are not in...
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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.