Regional News Last Tuesday, the EU Commission said it is considering a proposal to delay the implantation of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) that is currently scheduled to take effect on 30 December 2025 for large companies and 30 June 2026 for small companies. A final decision is still pending but the possibility of a delay exerted an impact on markets, with EU-sourced products subject to the legislation seeing price decreases. Spain reported an outbreak of bird flu in Olmedo, Valladolid in the central region of the country. The outbreak led to the culling of 760,000 layer hens and the establishment of a 3-km protection zone and a 10-km surveillance zone. Germany is facing an oversupply of table potatoes with deman...
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.