Noted China agriculture analyst Fred Gale observes that Beijing’s latest policy for the sector is to renationalize food and seek world domination, which is evidenced by its actions. China Controls World Food The Paulson Institute, which focuses on U.S. - China relations, has a new paper identifying farmer lack of access to capital via credit as the largest inhibition to modernizing the agricultural sector and recommending that Beijing allow producers to take out mortgages on the land they farm. However, China is currently in a crack down on credit. Moreover, noted China agriculture analyst Fred Gale observes that Beijing’s latest policy for the sector is to renationalize food and seek world domination. By rebuilding the power of cooperati...
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.