There has been a spate of state and local regulations as well as proposed referenda on labeling of GM foods and crops. The hearing was intended to provide a basis for establishing the type of labeling claims that can be substantiated under current regulations and programs.The House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research held a hearing on USDA's marketing programs with the department's deputy administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) for Livestock Poultry and Seed programs, Craig Morris, who reviewed the Quality Systems Verification Programs (QSVP). These are user fee-funded, audit-based, third-party verification programs and services, which are available to the industry for submitti...
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.