Wheat Uncompeted Demand will grow, but wheat has been a loser in the competition against other commodities for profit and thus growing area. U.S. Wheat Sector's Decline and Lack of Technology Wheat’s failure to adopt biotechnology caused farmers to shift land into more productive, profitable crops. Mending the problem will take many years. The Next Crop - Aussie Growers Prepare for Battle Australian wheat production this year could be hurt by El Niño-related drought, but growers remain hopeful that conditions will improve. A World Wheat Contract Wheat is unique as a global commodity, and it needs a better hedging mechanism. Looking at Wheat Economics Through Rice Is wheat a theoretical Giffen good? Commodity Market Re...
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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.