. In July, South Africa agreed to an annual antidumping duty-free quota of 65,000 MT for broiler meat that also allows for future growth. Today is the deadline for signing the deal. South African Poultry Deadline The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative held a congressionally mandated hearing in August 2015 on whether South Africa should be suspended from the recently renewed African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) because of the barriers that country imposed on poultry products. AGOA was originally passed in 2000, and South Africa initiated an anti-dumping (AD) investigation on the U.S. poultry industry that same year. AD investigations are typically based on a comparison of the export price versus the price of the product sold in t...
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...
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WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.