GI Attack Transatlantic relations under a President Biden may be less verbally kinetic than under President Trump but U.S. agriculture is not going to go down quietly. Groups have been meeting and strategizing how they will counter the EU’s latest efforts to create novel ecological production standards and then foist them on other countries. They have also just obtained a second letter from the U.S. Congress demanding that the White House defend the industry against the EU’s geographical indicators. They charge that Brussels undermines the use of what they claim are “common food names and traditional wine terms.” It is unlikely that even a President Biden can alter Europe’s course at protecting the historical...
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.