Exports have accounted for 25 percent of U.S. farm income, but that share will continue to fall. While China has taken about 25 percent of U.S. agricultural exports, the trade war is about to intensify. This will mean both further near-term losses but also a long-term erosion. Sales to Europe have been declining, and Japan will buy more from Australia and New Zealand due to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The OECD issued a silly report that American consumers will be worst hit due to the trade conflict with China. Duh. That is the whole point of it – the U.S. has lower importer barriers and consumes more from China. The real question is, what should be the revised direction of U.S. industries such as agriculture? Technology has...
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.