WPI provides a list of coming USDA reports that will have market-moving interest to our readers. Reports included in this list span those covering feed grains, wheat, oilseeds, livestock, and soft markets. Mon 11/06/2017 9:00 am Milk Cost of Production ERS 11:00 am Livestock and Meat International Trade Data ERS 3:00 pm Amber Waves Magazine ERS 3:00 pm Aquaculture Data ERS 3:00 pm U.S. Agricultural Trade Data Update ERS 4:00 pm Crop Progress NASS Tues 11/07/2017 USDA is not scheduled to release any reports at this time. Wed 11/08/2017 9:00 am U.S. Bioenergy ERS 3:00 pm Broiler Hatchery NASS Thu 11/09/2017 USDA is not scheduled to release any reports at this time. Fri 11/10/2017 U...
What You Need to Know Today: Oil prices surged today following reports of tanker attacks off the coast of Saudi Arabia by Houthi rebels and renewed U.S. threats to escalate military strikes against Iran, heightening concerns over potential disruptions to Middle East energy supplies. Brent crud...
Key Takeaways: The latest UN data shows solid progress reducing global hunger and food insecurity. The geography of hunger-affected people has shifted substantially, however, and Africa is now the most affected region. To understand why hunger patterns have shifted and what policy option...
USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report for 1 July will be released tomorrow. Analysts’ pre-report consensus estimates are for the total inventory on feed to be 102.2 percent of last year. Those estimates imply an on-feed inventory of 11.327 million head. If accurate, that would be the...
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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.