Border Trouble The Biden Administration’s management of a flood of children across the southern border is receiving the media attention but U.S. agriculture groups have other complaints emanating from the south. Agriculture groups sent a letter to new U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack covering eight trade barrier issues that have been erected by Mexico City under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO’s). The most serious is his threat against imports of GMO corn from the U.S. but there are several other products being impacted. AMLO’s protectionism makes little sense when his country has a substantial trade surplus since it risks losses for his own farmers. F...
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...
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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.