Mon 10/16/2017 12:00 pm Cotton & Wool Outlook: October 2017 ERS 12:00 pm Oil Crops Outlook: October 2017 ERS 3:00 pm Feed Outlook: October 2017 ERS 3:00 pm Rice Outlook: October 2017 ERS 3:00 pm Wheat Outlook: October 2017 ERS 4:00 pm Crop Progress NASS Tue 10/17/2017 3:00 pm Feed Grains Yearbook tables ERS 3:00 pm Turkey Hatchery NASS Wed 10/18/2017 11:00 am Fruit and Tree Nut Data ERS 11:00 am Vegetable and Pulses Data ERS 12:00 pm Livestock, Dairy, & Poultry Outlook: October 2017 ERS 3:00 pm Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook: October 2017 ERS 3:00 pm Broiler Hatchery NASS Thu 10/19/2017 USDA is not scheduled to release any reports at this time. Fri 10/20/2017 USDA is not scheduled to...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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.