Congress is back for a lame duck session which has one must pass agenda item – a full FY 2021 appropriations funding bill, and a high-profile item - a potential next round of COVID-19 relief. The end result could be a combination of the two. For the COVID relief bill, the House, under the leadership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), is holding out for a bigger, broader bill. The Senate, under the leadership of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is holding out for a smaller, more targeted bill. Right now, McConnell has the advantage. The Democrat majority in the House will shrink when the new Congress convenes, and while the Senate majority will be determined by two Senate run-off elections in Georgia, the...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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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.