Argentina’s Cash Payment Issues The volatility in forex markets and the Argentine peso’s devaluation led to government intervention in the debate between farmers and exporters. On contracts executed in USD, farmers were claiming that they were losing money between the time the forex rate was fixed for the contract and when exporters issued the final payment (more than five days later in some cases). The debate continued until the government issued a resolution stating that the exchange rate used should be that of the day prior to the effective date of payment. The government’s decision was good new for farmers but not as much for exporters using the forex volatility as a tool to improve their margins. Soybeans M...
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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.