Reasons to give TPP the Bronze Bronze is very durable, but it is an alloy rather than a pure metal like gold or silver. The TPP is a bronze standard agreement.. From U.S. Perspective, TPP is About Japan The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been oversold politically in the U.S. as a gateway to Asia, strategically the most important region of the world for trade. From the perspective of the U.S., however, the TPP is really about only Japan. TPP Positive for U.S. Soy Sector The U.S. soybean industry stands to gain significantly from TPP, particularly in Japan where tariffs on soyoil will be phased out in the future. TPP - The Importance of Realistic Expectations Future analysis may prove all of the anticipatory fanfare regarding the...
What You Need to Know Today: The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes, with the U.S. hitting Iranian bridges, energy sites, and military infrastructure. Iran launched a missile into Kuwait that damaged a desalination plant. Crude oil futures surged on heightened Middle East tensions, providing supp...
Key Takeaways: The EU heatwaves have coincided with key maize crop reproductive timing and featured high nighttime temperatures, a cruel two-sided blow to maize yields. France, much of western Europe, and Hungary have suffered the worst of the heat, with yield potential collapsing. WPI&r...
Congress returned this week from its Fourth of July recess, with another break scheduled for the month of August, to face a busy agenda before adjourning for the August recess. Congress has several priorities, including the National Defense Authorization Act, a potential third reconciliation pa...
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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.