WPI Agribusiness Subsector Outlook A brief review of WPI’s past Bull/Bear calls and industry stock price performance. WPI Bull/Bear Leanings for Agribusiness in 2017 A summary and graphical depictions of WPI’s expectations for future agribusiness performance. The U.S. Grain Industry Firms face a supply situation vastly different from that of recent years. Combined with low market volatility and even lower trading profits, managerial efficacy will be key for performance. Canada's Booming Oilseed Sector As with the U.S., wheat is dying and oilseeds are rising. Canadian oilseed handlers, processors and exporters will benefit. Opportunities and Geopolitics in the Azov Sea The Azov Sea is a key shipping point for...
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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.