Impending Change in China China's national interest is to continue economic growth and maintain an adequate supply of food, both of which are ambitions that can profit the West. A World Wheat Index The buying and selling of wheat became the first cash grain trade in the United States. It evolved to become the current landscape of wheat futures markets, but it continues to change. Can four North American wheat futures markets and one European wheat futures market all survive? U.S. Soybean Quality Undermining Competitiveness Half a decade ago the protein standard for U.S. dehulled, solvent-extracted soybean meal was 50 percent. Today many processors cannot make soybean meal with 47 percent protein. There needs to be some change to preven...
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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.