U.S. and Mexican dairy industry representatives met and renewed their commitment to “collaborate and advocate for mutually beneficial dairy policies. This was a policy initiative begun back in 2016. At first glance, the effort seems surprising given that Mexico exports more than three times as much dairy to the U.S. than the value of dairy shipped to Mexico from the U.S. Both nation’s dairy industries are expanding at roughly the same rate but the U.S. industry is nearly eight times larger with per capita consumption dwarfing that of Mexico. The calculation is that as Mexico grows wealthier, its per capita consumption will expand faster than its domestic industry can support. Mexican dairy production is limited by climate...
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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