There is great frustration on the part of some that the adverse impacts of the food system fail to garner more political attention in a major election year. These critics tend to focus on its perceived faults more than does the general public. Food Policy Conundrum There is great frustration on the part of some that the adverse impacts of the food system fail to garner more political attention in a major election year. These critics tend to focus on its perceived faults (environmental impacts, obesity, marketing, health, etc.) more than does the general public, and politicians generally do not stray from where voters are interested in going. At this juncture, that dynamic has prevented the sector from being dragged down too many rabbit ho...
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.