Later this year, on 22 November to be precise, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be remembered. On that date in 1963 President Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas. It was one of those instances of great national trauma. Those of us who were around at that time can still well remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we first heard the tragic news. The 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's death will no doubt revive discussion of his life and his presidency although that discussion has really never gone away.Seldom do discussions of the shortened Kennedy presidency involve agriculture and agricultural policy. Those topics are upstaged by other events...
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.