Greens Flip on GMO’s Greens have led the charge against agricultural biotechnology. They have successfully vilified the science to the point that major companies have lost billions of dollars and a relatively benign herbicide called glyphosate is banned without reason. Now a minority of German Green members of Parliament are calling for a reset. They recognize the incoherence of using biotechnology for human health advances but not for improving agriculture. They contend that the technology could remedy some of the sustainability problems in agriculture. Most Greens are still stuck in opposition mode but there is a crack in the Green wall. Surveys on China and Food Most respondents in WPI’s last survey believe U.S. – Ch...
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.
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...