The U.S. EPA has released the proposed 2018 Required Volume Obligations (RVOs) for biofuels, the first such issued by the Trump administration, and it signals a different approach toward the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that could shape the future of biodiesel.As Gary Blumenthal noted the other day (see Ag Perspectives, 5 July 2017), the U.S. EPA has released the proposed 2018 Required Volume Obligations (RVOs) for biofuels. This was the first such issued by the Trump administration, and it signals a different approach toward the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that could shape the future of biodiesel.Early reports in June about the proposed RVO indicated that the advanced biofuel category was to be 100 million gallons higher at 4.38 billion...
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.