USMCA Challenge There will be trilateral meetings between USMCA ministers and then national leaders later this year. Foreign policy analysts conclude that the odd man out when the three leaders meet will be Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO). They argue he has pursued the most unique economic policy amongst the three, blending fiscal austerity with outright distrust of foreign corporations. The downside of his approach is that foreign firms are reluctant to invest there. The opportunity to shorten supply chains and have Mexico replace China as a manufacturing center has not been slow solely due to AMLO, but he has not helped matters. Throwback Thursday On this date 25 years ago, WPI wrote about “...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
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...
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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.