House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway (R-Texas) today introduced a bill to effectively repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) requirements for beef, pork and chicken after the WTO issued a fourth ruling against the measure.House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway (R-Texas) today introduced a bill to effectively repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) requirements for beef, pork and chicken, while it leaves intact those for all other covered commodities such as seafood, peanuts, etc. The bill has 61 co-sponsors and will be brought up in tomorrow's committee meeting. Conaway held a press conference today with the COOL Reform Coalition, a group of industries that would be subjected to retaliatory tariffs by Mexico...
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...
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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.