Donald Trump has made clear that he wants to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border, but today the U.S. and Mexican dairy industries decided that one needs to come down, and it is located elsewhere. Overproduction Support The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) support may have not only encouraged Spanish farmers to grow too many olives and ship them to the U.S., but it also has resulted in too many peaches and nectarines. As a result, taxpayers will pay to remove the excess from the immediate fresh market for processing into juice. The cause of the overproduction is reportedly not the Russian import barriers, which have been reoccurring for years, but instead attributed to “structural imbalances.” Effectuating the adjustment of such i...
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.