Mon 06/24/2013 3:00 PM Poultry Slaughter NASS4:00 PM Crop Progress NASS Tue 06/25/2013 9:00 AM Food Price Outlook ERS4:00 PM Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin (WAOB) WAOB4:00 PM Dairy Data ERS4:00 PM Livestock & Meat Domestic Data ERS Wed 06/26/2013 3:00 PM National Dairy Products Sales Report AMS3:00 PM Broiler Hatchery NASS4:00 PM Monthly Milk Cost of Production ERS Thu 06/27/2013 8:30 AM U.S. Export Sales FAS12:00 PM Cherry Production NASS3:00 PM Agricultural Prices NASS3:00 PM Peanut Stocks and Processing NASS4:00 PM International Food Security Assessment ERS Fri 06/28/2013 12:00 PM Acreage NASS12:00 PM Grain Stocks NASS12:00 PM Rice Stocks NASS3:00 PM Egg Products NASS3:00 PM Peanut Prices NASS3:00 PM Quarterly Hogs and Pig...
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.