Goose versus Gander Left-leaning activist groups lacked trust in the EU’s food safety regulations, and now the European Food Safety Authority has announced that all raw data submitted by industry will be made public. The viewpoint is that transparency will improve trust. By contrast, right-leaning activist groups in the U.S. lacked trust in Environmental Protection Agency regulations, and now Administrator Scott Pruitt has announced that the agency’s rules cannot rely on studies that do not publicly disclose their data. Opponents say that the transparency requirement will stifle needed regulation. One thing is clear, critics from either side of the political spectrum will continue to selectively use and interpret data to fit th...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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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.