Considering how difficult it currently is to cull/sell cows in India as there is likely to be a clash of ideologies with the Hindu lobbies, farmers in some areas such as Uttar Pradesh are now instead raising a different source of meat for export. New, Expanded Crops May Help Stabilize High Food inflation The wholesale price-based inflation (WPI), which reflects the annual rate of price increase, stood at -4 percent in July 2015. It rose to 1.62 percent in June before reaching a 23-month high of 3.55 percent in July of this year as result of higher prices for vegetables, pulses and sugar.For the first seven months of the year, India’s retail inflation has been higher than the 5 percent that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) considers to be a...
WPI Grain Prices and Freight Rate App Note: you can also visit the app directly by clicking here. Supplemental Information The section below offers a concise view of the options available in the current version of the WPI FOB Price and Freight Rate app, along with a short “How To”...
Key Takeaways: Dry bulk freight markets are higher this week as activity in Asia and off the ECSA picks up. President Trump extended the Jones Act waiver for another 90 days this week, allowing foreign-flagged vessels to transport oil and other goods between U.S. ports. A container...
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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.