Speculation over who presumptive presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will pick as running mates is heating up as their respective party-nominating conventions draw near.Speculation over who presumptive presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will pick as running mates is heating up as their respective party-nominating conventions draw near. The Republican convention will be held in Cleveland, Ohio 18-21 July, and the Democratic convention follows 25-28 July in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Look for Donald Trump’s running mate announcement this week before the Republican convention with Hillary Clinton’s to follow after it ends and before the Democrats’ convenes four days later.At an event this past weekend he...
With considerable fanfare—and few specifics—USDA last week announced its Great American Cotton Plan for 2026-2031. Secretary Brooke Rollins and industry leaders described the initiative as a comprehensive strategy to address the persistent challenges facing U.S. cotton production, d...
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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.