Congress will be in recess next week for the President’s Day holiday and in-district work time. They will return on 1 March, which leaves 10 days to come up with funding for the rest of the fiscal year through 30 September. Yesterday the Senate passed a continuing resolution by a vote of 65-27; it was passed by the House on 8 February, by a vote of 272-162. The bill provides funding from now until 11 March. Livestock Price Reporting The appropriations bill contained funding to continue the livestock reporting program (the authorization expired on 30 September 2021). It increasingly looks like Congress will just extend livestock price reporting for the remainder of the fiscal year and work on a new reauthorization prior to 30 Se...
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.