Livestock Major Hog Producers Unveil Ambitious 2021 Goals One of the likely legacies of African Swine Fever (ASF) is the way it expedited a shift away from small farms to large integrated hog operations. When ASF hit, the process was already underway as a result of new environmental regulations for managing animal waste and addressing chronic water pollution. Led by President Xi Jinping and his dual strategy of improving the “ecological” profile of China’s livestock industry and alleviating rural poverty, production began to shift away from the densely populated southeastern areas of Guangdong and to the north and far western regions, which led to new high density farms in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. The mass culling a...
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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.