The All India Poultry Exporters Association wants the government to either ban the importation of chicken meat produced with biotech feed ingredients or allow Indian farmers to plant the more productive biotech soybeans and corn. Soy Export Tax Rebate for Northern Argentina Likely to Have Little Impact The Argentine government’s recent announcement that the 30 percent export tax on soybeans would not be reduced also included a plan to grant a 5 percent export rebate to farmers in 10 northern states, which is intended to be compensation for their higher transportation cost. While some have opined that this will strongly encourage farmers there to expand their soybean plantings in 2016, analysts are now saying it will likely have little imp...
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.