Livestock Public Data Reflect Scale of Investment in Hog Sector In 2020 Based on recent public records from China’s securities exchanges and other sources, investment in new and restocked hog operations has expanded rapidly in 2020. The dual incentives of high prices and preferential government support have been key drivers, but even so, the gross figures are quite impressive. The latest estimates project total direct investment for 2020 to surpass the RMB 200 billion ($30.67 billion) mark, which is more than four times higher than in 2016. Back then the market was worried about oversupply and did little to expand its breeding herd. The result of this investment so far is that China has expanded its capacity by at least 180 million...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
The big news in the cattle markets yesterday was Tyson Foods’ move to close two more beef plants. One of them, the Joslin, Illinois, plant was shuttered immediately after the announcement. The other, in Eagle Mountain, Utah, is a case-ready plant that does not slaughter cattle. Tyson also...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday. In July, the CPI rose 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 3.4 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted. The index for all items less food and energy, or the “core” infla...
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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.