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 Low volatility is reducing trading and merchandising profits, while growing on-farm storage is forcing grain buyers to offer better basis levels. The Chinese Oilseed Processing Industry Two factors are working against Chinese soybean crushers: consumer’s anti-GMO sentiments and low crushing margins. Neither will be easy to change. The U.S. Biofuels Industry Both biodiesel and ethanol had record years in 2016, but their outl...
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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.