Plenish® soyoil is found to reduce obesity but cause liver dysfunction. Elsewhere, Brazil exports lage soymeal and soyoil volumes while U.S. farmers pick up the harvest pace. Plenish Soyoil Causes Less Obesity Than Regular Soyoil, But Negative for Liver Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have published a paper in the journal Nature Scientific Reports that claims soyoil from Plenish® soybeans induces less obesity and insulin resistance than conventional soyoil. However, they found that the Plenish soyoil, conventional soyoil and olive oil all induce enlarged livers and liver dysfunction. Plenish® soybeans were developed by DuPont using biotechnology to be lower in linolenic fatty acid and higher in linoleic fatty acid.L...
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.