The U.S. rural credit entity Farmer Mac issued its quarterly report called The Feed, which indicates that wage rates have risen faster in production agriculture than in any other industry. It also notes that the result is an incentive for mechanization. Unsustainable Splintering The traditional food industry notes that activists have sown such distrust of the system in the public mind that its companies face a splintering into countless new upstarts and nontraditional channels. Even when industry tries to improve its processes such as with the New Poultry Inspection System, activists like Food & Water Watch try to undermine it with disparagement.Meanwhile, the so-called International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-...
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...
From WPI Consulting
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.