Assuming the Republicans maintain their majority in the House, there will be a number of committee gavels to pass. This includes the House Agriculture Committee. The Republicans have term limits on chairmanships, which combined with key retirements assure such changes.Regardless of what happens in the November elections, the House committees in the new Congress are going to see a great deal of turnover in their chairmanships. This includes the House Agriculture Committee. Assuming the Republicans maintain their majority in the House, there will be a number of committee gavels to pass. The Republicans have term limits on chairmanships, which combined with key retirements assure such changes. Some committees have their chairmen appointed by t...
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.