Russian Grain Markets: 30 January – 5 February 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,935 MT of grains for exchange trading on 5 February 2013.As of 5 February, there have been 328 accredited participants during the course of the public commodity interventions. Since the beginning of these interventions in 2012, the public intervention fund has sold 1.625 MMT of grain on the stock exchange for a general sum of 13.571 billion Russian rubles. Negative Central Meteorological Office Forecast Russia's Central Meteorological Office forecasts a possible decrease of the winter grain harvest as a result of unfavorable weather conditions during the planting and vegetation periods. There was a lack of rain in the fall, e...
What You Need to Know Today: Cattle futures extended their sharp selloff Friday as weakening cash cattle prices, deteriorating feedlot profitability, and reduced packer demand continued to weigh on the market. The inability of futures to sustain a rally following last week's bullish Cattle on...
Key Takeaways: WPI’s new EU rapeseed crushing margin models point to weaker processing returns over the next four months due to higher rapeseed procurement costs and weaker product values. Statistical forecasts call for German crushing margins to decline from €181/MT to €...
Key Takeaways: The tariff burden rose sharply in 2025 and 2026: the effective rate on imports in HTS Chapters 1–24 increased from 1.53 percent in 2024 to 6.11 percent in 2025, before averaging 5.68 percent in January–August 2026. Headline rates tell only part of the story: exemptio...
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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.