USDA’s Economic Research Service issued its updated forecast for food-related inflation in 2024 and for the most part it involves good news. Year-to-date consumer food price inflation is below the 20-year historical average (2004-2023) and is likely to stay that way. Meat and poultry prices are stubborn, along with sugar and sweets plus vegetable oils, but egg prices have dropped the most significantly. One exception is fresh vegetable prices, which have been rising faster than last year. Producer price inflation began falling last year and continues to do so in 2024 except for livestock products and vegetables. Farm level egg prices have increased the most this year, followed by wholesale pork. Due to avian influenza, egg prices are...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.