Valentines Kiss USTR Chief Agriculture Negotiator Doug McKalip gave his counterparts until 14 February to respond to the U.S. demand for answers to its questions about the science Mexico is using to justify bans on GMO corn and glyphosate. The U.S. sugar industry now realizes it could be adversely impacted by Mexico’s GMO policy. Farm Bill Implications The U.S. shifted from agrarian to industrial about 1800. Pretty much since then the political power of the agriculture sector has been declining. Perhaps a slower decline than buggy whips, but abundance and affluence have created new challenges. Spin forward a few decades and now there is a fight to get “on” the House Agriculture Committee! Because peop...
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.