EU officials have expressed frustration that their U.S. counterparts have been unwilling to match their market access offers for advancing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). TTIP Westerly View EU officials have expressed frustration that their U.S. counterparts have been unwilling to match their market access offers for advancing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). A U.S. official countered that view, though, by describing a contrary perspective. In essence, Brussels is using Brexit and the broader threat to the EU’s governance legitimacy to demand that most of the concessions come from Washington. However, because the vast majority of the support for free trade in the U.S. comes from congres...
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...
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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.