Certainly Certainty USDA and EPA signed a MOU with Minnesota this week that ensures that farmers reaching agreement with one agency on a conservation plan regarding runoff automatically meets the requirements of the other agency. It is a small step toward solving a larger problem. The so-called "cotton case" whereby a court opined that pesticide sprayers must jump through the hoops of several different laws, cannot be solved administratively, but a farmer being subjected to varying requirements from USDA/NRCS, EPA, the Army Corps and state agencies deserves administrative resolution. The regulatory "certainty" initiative was endorsed by EPA's Farm, Ranch & Rural Advisory Committee, which also recommended more coordinated public eng...
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.