Hugely successful writer Malcom Gladwell focuses on explaining the unexpected or explaining the unexpected out of the usual. Donald Trump’s inaugural speech today echoed the theme from his first book.Hugely successful writer Malcom Gladwell focuses on explaining the unexpected or explaining the unexpected out of the usual. Donald Trump’s inaugural speech today echoed the theme from Gladwell’s first book, The Tipping Point.For the whole of the post-WWII period, the U.S. has led the world by sacrificing small parts of its own blood and treasure to help the rest of the world. It provided better access to its own market than it received in return and contributed more than any other nation toward the free world’s security umbrella. Trump’s speec...
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.