Transatlantic Biofuel Split Brussels is ready to finalize its Renewable Energy Directive III (RED) with just one small glitch remaining. France and some other countries want hydrogen made from nuclear energy to be eligible as a low-carbon fuel. It is for certain low-carbon except for the nuclear part boosting the heebee-jeebees of the paranoid. The new RED is expected to reduce the use of conventional biofuels, raising concerns in Germany over its ICE car manufacturing and biodiesel. Meanwhile, U.S. EPA has sent to the White House for printing its final rule for renewable energy over the next three years. There would still be 15 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol used every year, but it is threatened by other fuels, including a c...
What You Need to Know Today: The corn and soybean markets closed slightly higher in low-volume trade. The wheat market was mixed, with HRW continuing its downward trek on improved moisture. As expected, the bearish cattle on feed report drove down cattle prices and pulled hogs down with it. Mi...
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USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report was released today. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity amounted to 11.6 million head, 102 percent of last year. Source: USDA, WPI Placements were up, but part of that is attributable to persistent drought c...
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.