China will increase its meat imports this year, potentially including U.S. beef. Meanwhile, USDA action this week has further delayed the livestock marketing rule called for in the 2008 Farm Bill. Trump/Xi Meeting Results in Movement on U.S. Beef Ban President Trump reported on his recent meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping via Twitter this week by commenting, “I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korea problem!” There were no details regarding what might be in the works to make trade better for China, but the two countries have reportedly agreed to a 100-day period of talks to address the matter. China has also reiterated its intention (first announc...
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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.