Monsanto's withdrawal of its application to sell Bollgard II Roundup Ready Flex cottonseed in India is said to be due to a new government-proposed requirement. The company is apparently also upset about a pricing matter related to the older version. Monsanto Withdraws Application for New GM Cotton in India Monsanto has withdrawn its application to sell its Bollgard II Roundup Ready Flex cottonseed in India. Its local partner there, Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co Ltd. (Mahyco), wrote to the government to say that a proposal requiring Monsanto to share its technology with local companies was the main reason for the withdrawal. Monsanto is also upset that the government established a maximum selling price for an earlier version of the seed that...
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...
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.