Russian Ultimatum Russian President Vladmimir Putin just provoked the transatlantic strategy on managing his country’s possible aggression in Eastern Europe. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov delivered the message that NATO is to stay out of the former Soviet bloc countries and that Moscow will have a veto over NATO activities, or else. Calculating the NATO response is complicated by the politics in Europe. French President Emmanuel Macon wanted to strengthen and unify EU military forces, saying the U.S. could not be trusted as in the past. Meanwhile, Sweden rejected the creation of an EU rapid reaction force and its supreme military commander, General Micael Bydén, this week said it is the U.S. that should send more mili...
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.