Each year since 2000, USDA has produced baseline reports that project U.S. crop acreage and supply/demand balances for wheat, corn and soybeans for the 10 succeeding years. Even though it can be reasonably assumed that things will not work out quite as projected, it is still interesting and instructive to see how USDA's analysts view the future.Each year since 2000, USDA has produced so-called baseline reports that project U.S. crop acreage and supply/demand balances for wheat, corn and soybeans for the 10 succeeding years. They are usually compiled in October and November, using the latter month’s WASDE as the starting point, and are based on a combination of modeling and analytical judgements. Some of the 10-year judgements involved inclu...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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.