Yesterday USDA Secretary Perdue noted that the second tranche of trade relief would likely be coming no later than December. Previously, there was speculation that not all the funds would be used. In a press interview on 9 October, Perdue himself said that spending could be less than $12 billion given the completion of the USMCA trade deal. As we predicted on 24 July (see Trade Mitigation Funds), “… once an aid package of $12 billion is announced before an election, all involved can count on the full total being spent.” Perdue walked back that speculation to calm fears that the second tranche of payments might not be made. He did, however, indicate that the program would not continue into 2019, which is a nonelection yea...
What You Need to Know Today: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured reelection on Sunday, defeating right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro despite trailing in the first round of voting. The surprise victory triggered a sharp selloff in Brazilian financial market...
The 2026 midterm elections are a week from tomorrow, but early voting has been taking place for weeks. At stake is control of Congress, including the House of Representatives, where all 435 seats are contested, and the Senate, where approximately one-third of the seats are up for election. Farm...
Key Takeaways: Total U.S. crop acres (excluding hay) are forecast to expand fractionally this year due to greater oilseed crop and winter wheat plantings. One of the key drivers of this year’s crop outlook is input costs, and crops with a lower cost profile have an advantage in producers...
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.