Technology, Finance, Geopolitics and Demographics The big four dynamics of technology, finance, geopolitics and demographics will collide to make 2016 very interesting. The Economy in 2016: Three Bright Spots Looking forward to 2016, there are three predicted bright spots in the U.S. economy, the global economy and the commodity sector. 2016 Fertilizer Price Drivers and Direction While 2015 has been a fairly lackluster year for fertilizers across the nutrient board, certain elements will be major drivers for 2016 international fertilizer markets. 2016 Soy Sector Outlook The next year promises to be an eventful one for the global soy sector as different factors are expected to influence both supply and demand in 2016. Commodity Marke...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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.