Livestock New Market Reports Reveal Interesting Trends in the Hog Sector The most recent data release from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) indicates the reproductive sow inventory rose .5 percent in July to 42.98 million head. That marks three straight months of increases and seemingly a complete reversal of the goal to reach a range of 41 to 41.5 million head in order to stabilize the market. Yet, MARA contends that the current total is just 4.8 percent above the target putting it within the so called green zone of plus or minus 5 percent, which the ministry feels is good enough to maintain a theoretical healthy balance between supply and demand. Meanwhile, import data from China’s Customs Bureau show frozen po...
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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.