Russian Grain Markets: 3-9 April 2013 The intervention fund put up 64,870 of grain for exchange trading on 9 April.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 2.712 MMT of grains for total amount of RUR 22.824 billion. Market Trends: 1-5 April 2013 GEOGRAPHICALLY: 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices continued to decrease in Ural (-$14/MT), Siberia (-$10/MT), Volga Valley and Black Soil (-$10-11/MT), and the South and Central (-$5/MT).4th grade soft milling wheat prices also decreased, but at a slower rate.5th grade feed wheat prices decreased (-$5/MT) in all regions, except Ural region (-$13/MT) and Volga Valley (-$8/MT).Feed barley prices decreased in the South (-$8/MT), Central...
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...
From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.