At the moment, there is political inertia on a tax extender package. In part, this is because last year’s Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act addressed 52 provisions expiring 31 December 2015. However, there are supporters of the initiative to address the biodiesel tax credit.President Obama signed a short-term appropriations bill into law on 29 September that will fund the government until 9 December 2016. Congress expects to return to a lame-duck session on 14 November in order to take up a longer-term appropriations bill for FY 2017 as well as a few other healthcare-related items. This session will also provide an opportunity to legislatively extend some expiring tax provisions, including the biodiesel tax credit that has a st...
Key Takeaways: Dry bulk markets remain mixed with Capesize vessels seeing continued pressure from weaker demand while fixtures and rate strength gradually increases towards the smaller vessel classes. Tanker markets are pulling back from their recent highs as tonnage moves out of the Mid...
The Trump import plan for 300,000 MT of beef supplies used for ground beef, i.e., lean trim, from September through November has, according to Secretary Brooke Rollins, brought some relief to beef prices. The Executive Order states that the Secretary of Agriculture will analyze and review the m...
Key Takeaways: Texas illustrates the assumptions underlying the 2025 FMMO reform; Idaho exposes their limitations. The Southwest order blend (roughly 27 percent Class I, 32 percent Class III and 31 percent Class IV) exposes Texas producers to every lever USDA adjusted, with a near-neutral proj...
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.