Four Democratic members of the House of Representatives issued a press release criticizing the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) regarding numbers related to the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It referenced a Public Citizen report that shows overall exports to Korea are down since the FTA implementation.Four Democratic members of the House, Representatives Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, George Miller of California, Louise Slaughter of New York and Paul Tonko of New York, issued a press release criticizing the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in regards to the numbers on the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA). According to the release, a report from Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, shows that overall exports to Korea...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
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...
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.