According to leaks from the administration, the president's spending blueprint will adhere to the Bipartisan Budget Act agreed to in December that set spending caps for both FY 2014 and FY 2015.The White House is scheduled to release its budget next month on 4 March. This starts the process for the FY 2015 federal budget. Details are leaking out today that the president's budget will reflect his vision for the nation. Under the Budget Impoundment and Control Act, the president is supposed to submit his budget to Congress on the first Monday in February. However, the delays in meeting budget details over the past few years have resulted in the postponement of this budget proposal. The president's budget was submitted to Congress last year on...
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.