Milling Wheat The Black Sea market was weaker last week in the absence of fresh demand. Consumers in the major destinations are more or less covered until the end of the current campaign. The new crop (August) Russian wheat offer is $30/MT below that of old crop (May). This big inverse gives consumers a strong incentive to hold minimum possible stocks at the junction between the two campaigns. Meanwhile, weather in southern Russia and Ukraine remains generally favorable for winter wheat development. The next rains there are expected to start next weekend. The market in Romania and Bulgaria is under pressure as farmers and local traders are liquidating the balance of their long positions. However, buying interests are difficult to find. T...
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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.