India's high domestic feed ingredient prices have spurred livestock farmer groups to ask that GOI allow imports that may have been produced using grain and seeds of GM origin as well as the duty-free importation of plant proteins. Wheat Procurement to End Early The government of India (GOI) had first fixed the MY 2016/17 (starting 1 April 2016) wheat purchase target at 30 MMT before later revising it to 28 MMT. To date, 21.751 MMT have been obtained, slightly more than the 20.9 MMT acquired a year ago at this time against the total MY 2015/16 procurement of 28.08 MMT. With the arrivals slowing down in most grain markets, it is unlikely that the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and other state agencies will be able to reach this year’s goal...
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.