Reprieve on Emissions Data At the request of U.S. farm groups, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has extended the deadline for public comments on its proposed rule, “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate Related Disclosures for Investors.” The Commission wants publicly traded companies to report to shareholders certain climate-related information covering their entire supply chain. This means that originators and food processors would demand this information from farmers, which would be both a cost burden, and importantly, a potential liability. Farmers know that data is the camel’s nose under the tent, though emissions data from feedlots has not yet been used to regulate them. However, the SEC’s...
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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.