Russian Grain Markets: 7 – 11 October 2024The world has been watching the 2024 Russian grain harvest forecasts, especially wheat production. The Russian Ministry of Agriculture was not making any sharp moves in one direction or the other, while domestic analysts have revised the 2024 grain crop downwards several times.The latest USDA forecast decreased wheat production forecast in Russia by 1 MMT making it 82 MMT leaving the export forecast unchanged at 48 MMT. Carryover was increased from 6.7 MMT to 7.2 MMT (for reference the carryover of 2023/24 was 11.7 MMT).Finally, Vice Premier Patrushev announced their crop expectations last week saying that the crop will be 130 MMT, 83 MMT of wheat. With different sources forecasting different number...
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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.