Politico reports that President Biden wants to attack the U.S. food industry in his 7 March State of the Union address to Congress. He believes his Super Bowl attack on food companies for “shrinkflation” struck a chord with voters for its deceptive nature. Rather than raise prices, food processors put less food in the package. President Biden condemned companies for putting “fewer chips” in the bag. That alone is awkward since shrinkflation mostly occurs in highly processed foods, the kind that Biden’s own health officials want people to consume less. Republicans like U.S. Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) blames the President by saying, "Unless you were homeschooled by a day drinker, you can see that shrinkfl...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
From WPI Consulting
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.