Egg Production to Increase in India The growth of India's egg sector in the last few years has been impressive. Even with high feed costs, production grew 3.89 percent (62.38 billion eggs) in 2011 and is expected be 4 percent higher (64.88 billion eggs) in 2012. The egg sector has seen such impressive development for a number of reasons, such as the population's access to more disposable income, undue price increases for other proteins and the lack of an environmental clearance requirement. However, issues like fund availability, high interest rates and volatile prices for ingredients (corn and soymeal) are factors that do not allow for increased expansion or new projects.In 2013 India is expected to produce 71 billion eggs, roughly a 9...
What You Need to Know Today: Cattle futures extended their sharp selloff Friday as weakening cash cattle prices, deteriorating feedlot profitability, and reduced packer demand continued to weigh on the market. The inability of futures to sustain a rally following last week's bullish Cattle on...
Key Takeaways: WPI’s new EU rapeseed crushing margin models point to weaker processing returns over the next four months due to higher rapeseed procurement costs and weaker product values. Statistical forecasts call for German crushing margins to decline from €181/MT to €...
Key Takeaways: The tariff burden rose sharply in 2025 and 2026: the effective rate on imports in HTS Chapters 1–24 increased from 1.53 percent in 2024 to 6.11 percent in 2025, before averaging 5.68 percent in January–August 2026. Headline rates tell only part of the story: exemptio...
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.