Biodiversity Killer The EU is mandating that 25 percent of agricultural production be organic. Member states are being told that organic brings social, economic, and environmental benefits. They are also being told that organic agriculture naturally tilts in favor of small farms. The metrics behind these assertions are harder to find than the once hidden JRC modeling that ultimately found economic harm from the planned Farm to Fork strategy. If 25 percent brings benefits, why not make it 100 percent? If Austrian farmers have already reached 25 percent organic, can it be proved that they are better off than farmers in other countries? If organic naturally favors small farms, why do Greece and Poland have low rates of organic adoption when t...
WPI Grain Prices and Freight Rate App Note: you can also visit the app directly by clicking here. Supplemental Information The section below offers a concise view of the options available in the current version of the WPI FOB Price and Freight Rate app, along with a short “...
What You Need to Know Today: Iran says its definition of the Strait of Hormuz is now a “vast operation area” that stretches from Jask to Siri Island. The White House said President Trump did not sign a suspension of the TRQs on beef imports but is “finalizing potential...
If the media headlines and Trump critics are to be believed, President Trump is headed to Beijing this Thursday in a weakened position. China is in control, it has the upper hand, and expectations are very low. These are the same critics that argue against overly simplistic zero-sum analyses in...
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.