Mexico Hardens Positions USTR Katherine Tai met with her Mexican counterpart this week, Economy Minister Raquel Buenrostro, and the message was clear, Mexico will continue nationalizing its energy sector. The two agreed to kick the can down the road by extending the dispute settlement “consultations” to December but Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) specifically fired Buenrostro’s predecessor and hired her knowing she would stand firm. AMLO is said to be “dug in” on both nationalizing Mexican energy and eliminating imports of GMO corn from the U.S. His pit bull in the GMO corn fight is Agriculture Under Secretary Victor Suarez. Suarez spent decades as an organizer...
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...
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.