Walk the Trade Talk President Trump gave a buffoonish speech at the U.N. today, which makes it easier to mock his pronouncements. However, there is no shortage of hypocrisy from those critiquing his America First proclamations. French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the rise of nationalism reflected by Mr. Trump, but his own “food sovereignty” policy is nationalism writ large. American agriculture looks at EU trade policy and sees nothing but nationalism from oilseed import substitution efforts to COOL, GIs, taxing U.S. IT companies and a refusal to even negotiate food trade in bilateral talks. China has its “Made in China 2025” policy, and India has its “Make in India” or Swadeshi movement, which w...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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.