WPI provides a list of coming USDA reports that will have market-moving interest to our readers. Reports included in this list span those covering feed grains, wheat, oilseeds, livestock, and soft markets. Mon 11/06/2017 9:00 am Milk Cost of Production ERS 11:00 am Livestock and Meat International Trade Data ERS 3:00 pm Amber Waves Magazine ERS 3:00 pm Aquaculture Data ERS 3:00 pm U.S. Agricultural Trade Data Update ERS 4:00 pm Crop Progress NASS Tues 11/07/2017 USDA is not scheduled to release any reports at this time. Wed 11/08/2017 9:00 am U.S. Bioenergy ERS 3:00 pm Broiler Hatchery NASS Thu 11/09/2017 USDA is not scheduled to release any reports at this time. Fri 11/10/2017 U...
What You Need to Know Today: The June jobs report showed nonfarm payrolls increased by 57k jobs, less than the 115k jobs expected by economists surveyed by Dow Jones. The labor force participation rate dropped by 0.3 percent to 61.5 percent, the lowest since March 2021, and the lowest in 50 ye...
On 4 July 2026, the United States will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In observance of the Fourth of July holiday, Ag Perspectives will not be published on Friday, 3 July. We will resume our normal publication schedule on Monday, 6 July...
Today was the deadline for announcing intentions regarding renewal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA); the U.S. will not renew the USMCA, according to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. President Trump will instead pursue separate bilateral trade deals with Canada and Mexico las...
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.