While India's poultry industry is against any trade of U.S. poultry meat, the general view is that such imports will be of low volume and not harmful to the industry at large. However, they will help consumers realize that good chicken and chicken products can cost less. Vegetable Oil Import Surge and Low Oilseed Production Forecast According to the government of India's (GOI's) Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, the country's 2013/14 kharif season (October harvest) peanut (ground nut) production totaled 7.813 MMT. GOI estimates the 2014/15 production at 5.024 MMT, less than the target of 7.245 MMT and an approximate 35 percent decline from the previous year. The Solvent Extractors Associat...
What You Need to Know Today: The corn and soybean markets closed slightly higher in low-volume trade. The wheat market was mixed, with HRW continuing its downward trek on improved moisture. As expected, the bearish cattle on feed report drove down cattle prices and pulled hogs down with it. Mi...
Monday, 25 May is a U.S. holiday, and both the markets and our office will be closed. Please note that the next issue of Ag Perspectives will be published on Tuesday, 26 May. The WPI staff wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend...
USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report was released today. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity amounted to 11.6 million head, 102 percent of last year. Source: USDA, WPI Placements were up, but part of that is attributable to persistent drought c...
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.