Back in 2008, climate change was a hot topic for U.S. agriculture with both presidential candidates having proactive plans to address greenhouse gases and climate change. Now the EPA is proposing to lower the ozone standard to between 65-70 parts per billion (ppb).Back in 2008, climate change was a hot topic for U.S. agriculture. Carbon and greenhouse gases were in the news every day as were several proposals for regulating their emissions. The two presidential candidates, Democrat Barrack Obama and Republican John McCain, both had proactive plans to address greenhouse gases and climate change. Agriculture was actively involved in trying to turn "lemons into lemonade" (as the saying goes) by fixating on the carbon sinking qualities of farml...
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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.