The House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have both passed the full-year Continuing Appropriations Act, which would fund the government under a continuing resolution (CR) for the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2025. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that this bill would set overall baseline discretionary budget authority for FY 2025 at $1.6 trillion. That breaks down to $893 billion for defense and $708 billion for non-defense. The House passed the bill then adjourned, leaving it for the Senate to address on Friday. The Democrats had a field day with complaints about the budget package, but ultimately, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) decided to vote for the bill. That brought 10 votes with him, to see the bill p...
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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.