Political analysts credit the rise of unconventional candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to public frustration with the duplicity of conventional politicians. Meanwhile, auto companies lie about the mileage per gallon of fuel obtained by their products, but they are not in trouble for this deception. Capitals Dual, Coalesce for Relevance Leadership of the EU Commission has rotated to the Dutch in Brussels, and the agenda reads like this: create stricter organic rules, stronger monitoring of antibiotic use, and country-of-origin labeling of meat and dairy to facilitate prejudicial purchasing as well as, paradoxically, simplified farm laws. Across the pond in Washington, USDA this week sought to bridge the ideological divide on...
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...
Key Market Insights Geopolitical Limbo: Geopolitical risk remained a key driver across global commodity markets today. President Trump stated that the Iran memorandum of understanding is not yet final and warned that military action could resume if negotiations fail. Both sides continue w...
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.