Its premise is that traceability is one of the greatest tools for impacting sustainability. If traceability is going to develop, it has to either be mandated or carry its weight via a value proposition.Last week, the UN Global Compact and Businesses for Social Responsibility (BSR) released a sustainability guide. BSR is a coalition of more than 250 companies that maintains offices around the world for the promotion of corporate commitment to sustainability. Members in the agri-food space include Altria, Anheuser-Busch, Fromageries Bel, Starbucks, Sodexo, Coca-Cola, Campbell Soup, Wendy's, Chiquita, PepsiCo and others. The UN Global Compact is a similar coalition that combines both policy and operations standards for companies on sustainabil...
Key Takeaways: Argentina is on pace for a record corn crop and record exports in the current marketing year, with abundant supplies likely to keep the country highly competitive in global export markets. Argentina’s record exportable surplus is allowing it to offer highly competitive pri...
Unlike the 2022 fertilizer shock, today’s disruption is rooted less in rerouted trade flows and more in damaged production capacity, raw material constraints and uncertain recovery timelines. That makes this a longer-duration risk for U.S. agricultural producers and retailers who must sec...
WPI Grain Prices and Freight Rate App Note: you can also visit the app directly by clicking here. Supplemental Information The section below offers a concise view of the options available in the current version of the WPI FOB Price and Freight Rate app, along with a short “How To”...
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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.