No Egg Layer Welfare Language in Senate Farm Bill Mark Last week we wrote that a number of commodity groups had been told that Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) planned to include an egg layer welfare proposal in her farm bill markup. As it now stands, however, the language has been dropped.Livestock groups that oppose this bill are preparing for an amendment that will add the language either during Senate Committee markup or on the Senate floor. The purpose of the language was to create a federal standard and stop individual state animal welfare standards for the egg layer industry. While the proposal applies only to eggs, other groups oppose the measure because it sets the precedent for a federal st...
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.