Regional News The European and Black Sea wheat and summer crop markets are largely in wait-and-see mode regarding 2020 Northern Hemisphere supplies. Certainly, news of smaller Russian wheat crops and reductions to the EU wheat harvest have supported prices recently, but rallies have been limited as overall wheat supplies look ample. Similarly, after a rough start to 2020, European and Black Sea corn/rapeseed crops are entering the key growing season buoyed by good weather and trendline or better yields are expected. Ukraine’s 2020/21 YTD grain exports are down 57 percent at 719,000 MT. The current volume of exports includes 159,000 MT of wheat and 186,000 MT of barley, though it is unclear whether the grain is from old o...
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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.