Sorting Through the Hazards With over 100 million people and an investment grade rating, the Philippines is an important player in the global agricultural market. The Philippines: Helping Tear Down the Blendwall Limits for Ethanol The Philippines is the second-largest and fastest-growing market for ethanol exports as well as one of the few in the world that is truly short on supplies. The Philippines: A Key Market for U.S. Soymeal As U.S. soybean processors have seen a decline in domestic soymeal demand because of competition from DDGS and rapeseed meal, they have worked to expand the volume of exports. One market where they have been very successful is the Philippines. Fertilizer Use in the Philippines The Philippines’ fairly...
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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.