Outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) have been trending higher in recent years. The World Health Organization describes the disease as “devastating” in animal populations and a threat to farmer incomes. Last year the disease spread to 67 countries on five continents. Most concerning is its spread to non-avian species closer to the human genome. In the latest report from the World Organization for Animal Health the pandemic risk was described as high, though there is naturally an increase in the disease this time of year. Some countries in Europe have pursued vaccination of birds but U.S. officials are concerned that this merely masks the presence of the disease much the way that humans vaccinated against...
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.