One of the most controversial EPA actions over the past year has been the granting of hardship waivers for small refiners. Biofuel groups have complained that the waivers have been a de facto reduction in the Required Volume Obligations (RVOs), which is accurate, and they pressed hard prior to the release of the proposed 2019 biofuels volumes to have those waived amounts reallocated. The EPA did not take such action nor seek comments in its proposal on a potential allocation. Now Congress is involved. Representatives David Young (R-Iowa) and Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota) – who is also the ranking minority member on the House Agriculture Committee – introduced legislation on Friday that would force the EPA to do so. The bill is...
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.