President Obama will submit his FY 2013 budget proposal to Congress on 13 February, one week late. The first Monday in February is the deadline for the president's budget proposal, and it likely won't be the only one missed this year. However, on time as always, CBO last week released its Budget and Economic Outlook FY 2012-2022, also known as the budget baseline.With regard to agriculture, the report indicates that mandatory spending for agricultural support was $15 billion in 2011. If current farm programs remain in place after the 2008 Farm Bill expires this year, this amount is projected to average $16 billion each year between FY 2012-2022. CBO's expects spending would dip to about $13 billion in 2012 "largely because of changes in the...
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.