Issues Plaguing the Meat Industry From animal welfare to meat substitutes, the livestock sector faces many challenges. U.S. Meat Exports and the TPP The U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC’s) analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) projects the biggest increase in U.S. beef, pork and poultry exports will be to Japan. Aquaculture and the Global Livestock Industry While the swine, poultry, beef and dairy sectors are the most important in the global livestock arena, aquaculture is a large and fast-growing part of that industry today. Competitiveness of EU Livestock The combination of extensive regulation weighing on margins and generally low price levels has already put the EU livestock sector in a crisis mode...
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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...
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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.