Permanent Pivot in Trade Policy German Green Party member of the European Parliament Martin Häusling and other politicians are telling the European Commission to stand up to the threats of President Donald Trump. Many in Europe are hoping to wait out Trump with hopes of a U.S. return in 2021 to the post-WWII status quo on trade policy. However, the view of many trade policy experts in Washington is that the 2020 election is not going to send trade policy back to page 10 in the newspapers. Backed by organized labor, the Democrats have long been a protectionist party, giving very few votes in support of the trade agreements negotiated over the past two decades. Donald Trump co-opted their agenda in 2016, and he will keep playing tough...
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.