Today is the day when farmers can start applying for the $16 billion in Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) direct payments. FSA has announced that to expedite the payments, it has created a form application that applies the rates of payment to the eligible volumes that a farmer enters into the program and that the form will pre-calculate the eligible payment. In anticipation, growers across the country are touching base with their local county FSA offices and some are coming away confused and disappointed – especially co-op members. We are hearing from some producer groups that certain FSA offices have told producers of certain specialty crops and cotton producers that they will not be eligible for the CFAP paymen...
What You Need to Know Today: President Trump claimed the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over, as both sides accused one another of violating the terms of the agreement. Commercial vessels are increasingly steering clear of the Strait of Hormuz as security risks escalate following Iran...
Key Takeaways: The CME Group is launching new 90 percent Lean Beef and 50 percent Lean Beef futures and options contracts in July. There are five key factors that must be present in physical markets and futures contract specifications for futures contracts to become successful. The two l...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
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.