After notifying Congress yesterday that he lacks the legal authority to provide subsidies to cottonseed under the PLC and ARC programs, USDA Secretary Vilsack indicated that it can pass legislation approving the crop's eligibility. However, there was one stipulation. USDA Denies Request to Subsidize Cottonseed USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack yesterday notified Congress that he lacks the legal authority to provide subsidies to cottonseed under the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) programs. The cotton industry and its congressional supporters had requested the payments in order to help prevent a further decline in U.S. cotton plantings at a time of low cotton lint prices and high production costs.Secretary Vils...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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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.