EU Policy Developments Farmer protests in Europe have increased and some credit the movement with softening Brussels’ views toward Ukrainian grain threatening producers in eastern Europe. However, farmers have also been protesting the Green Deal/Farm to Fork and efforts to change the way they farm. The center-right European People’s Party has been exploiting their angst and now some Greens are calling for a longer transition period, the cancellation of debts, guarantees to farm income and limits on free trade deals to mollify farmers in the face of stricter regulatory requirements. The EU’s “strategic dialogue” with all stakeholders on Farm to Fork begins tomorrow. Some EU agriculture ministers have exp...
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.