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The Strange Effects of Screwworm

For the first six months of 2025, cattle imports from Mexico are down 73.1 percent due to restrictions from the discovery of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico. From January to July 2024 there were 853,976 head imported into the U.S. from Mexico, but in 2025 that volume over the same time period had dropped to 229,055 head. Similarly, from Canada, live cattle imports are down 4.8 percent to 440,174 head from 462,406 head in the first six months of 2024. The U.S. beef industry relies on these imported cattle to supplement slaughter totals. These cattle expand U.S. beef production and help supply not only domestic consumers with quality beef at an affordable price but also help meet global demand.   Since 2014, the average number...

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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.

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