Interconnected Biodiesel Mess Markets are globalized and so when the U.S. has border measures against Chinese steel or EVs, more get diverted to the European market. U.S. imports of renewable diesel during the first five months of this year were up 29 percent from a year ago. American producers of renewable diesel were already under pressure from a rapidly built out domestic infrastructure for making the fuel, plus imports of cheap used cooking oil from China. Last week, California said it would further restrict the use of canola and soyoil in making renewable diesel. Now Europe is imposing provisional antidumping duties of between 12.8 and 36.4 percent on imports of biodiesel from China. That could divert more volumes of this competing fu...
What You Need to Know Today: Markets got a surprise with a corn yield of 181.2 bushels/acre in the October WASDE, above the average estimate of 177.6 bushels/acre and up from USDA’s September estimate of 178.5 bushels/acre. Although stronger demand is expected to absorb some of the addit...
Key Takeaways: On Friday afternoon, President Trump announced that Russia will “immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel” to the United States. The deal, typical of this administration, is light on details but promises an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 m...
The USDA has lowered its 2026 red meat production forecasts slightly while forecasting a slight increase in broiler production. Beef is now projected at 24.802 billion pounds, 75 million pounds less than in September. Cow slaughter is expected to be up; however, this will be offset by lower ste...
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.