Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Algeria is expected to receive a shipment of 28,000 MT of Russian wheat – the first in at least four years. Bangladesh reportedly signed a government-to-government arrangement with Russia for the supply of 200,000 MT of wheat. It also announced that a further 300,000 MT of wheat will be bought under an international tender. The Russian arrangement and the wheat tender now have to be approved by the Bangladesh Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase before becoming valid. The Bank of Punjab in Pakistan is now issuing electronic warehouse receipts for maize stored at approved facilities. The warehouse receipts can be used for financing further maize crops and as security for...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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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.