CAP All-Nighter: The European Parliament Agriculture Committee reportedly is meeting tonight to slog through over 300 proposed amendments to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Reform. The goal is to whittle them down in number before a Wednesday plenary vote in the full Parliament (EP). It could take a lot of hours or not. Apparently the threshold for getting an amendment considered by the EP is fairly low, just one-tenth of committee members, which in this case would be five. Already all seven committee members from the Greens have committed to push all of their proposals, and any block of parliamentarians with at least 40 members can assure that their proposals are considered. With eight major groups and several sub-parties, Wednesday's ses...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
Developer's Note 24 August 2026: WPI recently completed an exercise that updated the codebase for this app and solved some of the discrepancies between our five-year average calculation and USDA's. There are a few lingering cases where early (late) starts (finishes) to the crop cycle resu...
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.