Ag Negotiator President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Elaine Trevino to be the U.S. Chief Agricultural Trade Negotiator. Trevino is President of the Almond Board Alliance of California. Her prior experience includes serving as Deputy Secretary and Assistant Secretary at the California Department of Agriculture with a focus on international trade. She has bipartisan bona fides since she served both Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, and Governor Gray Davis, a Democrat. She was notably appointed by President Trump to serve on the joint USDA/USTR Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee. USTR Katherine Tai noted that Ms. Trevino would be the first woman of color and the first Latina in the position of U.S. Chief A...
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.