Milling Wheat The Black Sea market remained about unchanged last week. Russia continues to export about 1 MMT of wheat per week, and the total since the start of the campaign is nearing 20 MMT. Winter is approaching, and the expected freeze in about a week could complicate interior logistics as well as slow the export pace. The USD has rallied sharply against the EUR today. Consequently, EU wheat is more competitive versus Black Sea origin, but Russian wheat remains the cheapest for the major destinations. The market in Romania and Bulgaria was also unchanged last week, although the weaker EUR and lower prices in USD will certainly attract more buying interest for both countries’ wheat in the coming days/weeks. The winter wheat con...
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Key Takeaways: Total U.S. crop acres (excluding hay) are forecast to expand fractionally this year due to greater oilseed crop and winter wheat plantings. One of the key drivers of this year’s crop outlook is input costs, and crops with a lower cost profile have an advantage in producers...
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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.