France is hosting a meeting of EU members to discuss the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and how it can better respond to the current supply/demand imbalance. American expectations are of something worse to come, and there is a very big reason why. Transatlantic Ag Policy France is hosting a meeting of EU members to discuss the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and how it can better respond to the current supply/demand imbalance. The meeting is a first in that it will exclude the British, who have voted to depart the union. Agricultural policy insiders in the U.S. raised their eyebrows over the situation. This is because the French are in the lead and are among the most protectionist of agriculture in Europe, while the UK has been the mos...
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.