The governments of China’s Heilongjiang and Liaoning Provinces announced last week that they will pay farmers higher subsidies to produce soybeans in 2017, a move intended to address two domestic issues.. Rampant Organic Soybean Import Fraud Reported The Washington Post published an article over the weekend that reported widespread fraud in the importation of soybeans that were alleged to be organic when they were not. It cited the case of a large quantity from Turkey that were actually conventional soybeans of Ukrainian origin that had been transshipped through Turkey where they received organic certification.Increasingly large quantities of organic soybeans, which command a premium, are being imported into the U.S. from India and China...
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.