There are many different U.S. programs encouraging the research into, production of, and use of biodiesel and renewable biodiesel. The U.S. Energy Information Agency lists seven programs, nine laws and regulations, plus 21 incentives ranging from grants to loans to tax credits. However, the Renewable Fuel Standard and California Low Carbon Fuel Standard are considered the main drivers of output. California provides a $1/gallon tax credit for renewable biodiesel (B100) and production capacity has exploded in recent years, doubling from 2021 to 2022 alone, and now exceeding the production capacity of biodiesel. Theoretically, the incentive to crush soybeans solely for the oil used in biodiesel and renewable diesel should lead to an ove...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
Yesterday we wrote about the Q1 GDP numbers and the June employment reports in an article entitled Real GDP for Q1 Relying on AI Buildout, Held Back by Consumer Spending. That article mentioned that consumer spending had become a drag on GDP. Nonetheless, real GDP in Q1 was revised upward to 2...
Key Takeaways: The Middle East and North Africa's arid climate and limited water resources have created a structural dependence on imported wheat. Government wheat tenders in major importing countries serve as important benchmarks for global trade, providing insight into exporter competitivene...
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.