Silver Bullets from Food Science Researchers and industry are on a path where food will solve some of the largest risks to human health: non-communicable diseases. Weather Shapes the World Grain Outlook The predominant role played by weather in crop production is obvious. What is not so obvious, except to those of us directly involved, is the ripple effect that weather pushes through the entire food chain, its influence on agricultural markets, and even its effect on the politics of agriculture. China Drives Global Demand for Food and Fiber China has accounted for practically all of the growth in global soybean imports and has driven global demand for many other agricultural commodities over the last 15 years. With a still growing eco...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
Key Takeaways: India is excluding sugarcane juice, sugar syrup, and B-heavy molasses from its 2026/27 fuel ethanol procurement program to protect domestic sugar supplies, potentially shifting additional demand toward corn and rice. India’s corn consumption for ethanol has surged from jus...
Developer's Note 24 August 2026: WPI recently completed an exercise that updated the codebase for this app and solved some of the discrepancies between our five-year average calculation and USDA's. There are a few lingering cases where early (late) starts (finishes) to the crop cycle resu...
From WPI Consulting
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.