Scientists Say India Needs to Adopt New Technology and Remove Constraints The 2011 Global Hunger Index ranked India 67th out of 81 countries -- even below Pakistan, Nepal, Rwanda and Sudan. The government of India (GOI) has proposed an ambitious Food Security Bill, which would require over 65 MMT of additional food grain procurement. This makes us wonder how that will happen, and how India will feed its 1.3 billion people.There are two potential solutions: having more land under grains and pulses, or adopting new technologies that have proved beneficial in other countries. The prime minister has called for enhancing "efforts to rid the country of the scourge of malnutrition" through increased production of food grains. Agri-biotechnologi...
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...
Key Market Insights Geopolitical Limbo: Geopolitical risk remained a key driver across global commodity markets today. President Trump stated that the Iran memorandum of understanding is not yet final and warned that military action could resume if negotiations fail. Both sides continue w...
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.