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Green for You, Grey for Me; Slaying National Champions

Green for You, Grey for Me Some say the EU has been vague about whether it will seek a delay in the December 30 implementation deadline for implementing the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Brussels told WTO members last week that delay would require a legislative change, which is not impossible. At the same time, the European Court of Auditors has concluded that the national strategic plans required for each member state to implement the environmental goals laid out by Brussels lack effective oversight and measurement mechanisms. This means the goals of reducing chemical inputs and boosting organic output could be glossed over. So, the EU would impose a hard stop green policy on other countries, but allow its own producers to operate m...

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WPI has officially launched Transportation Perspectives as a standalone weekly report separate from our Ag Perspectives articles and analysis. Current Ag Perspectives subscribers will have gratis access to the report through 16 April 2026. Please email us or subscr...

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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.

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