Anti-free trade campaigners attacked the pending EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) by arguing it would lower food safety standards. Per usual, they cited no evidence and instead referred to issues unrelated to food safety. Yellow Charges Anti-free trade campaigners attacked the pending EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) by arguing it would lower food safety standards. Per usual, they cited no evidence and instead referred to issues unrelated to food safety. For example, their spokesperson Maude Barlow referred to GMOs and complained that, "Canada is not the pristine wilderness Europeans imagine with small farms dotting the landscape. Under NAFTA, Canada has shifted towards large-scale agricultura...
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...
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.