Biden Echoes Trump Anyone in Geneva expecting a softer, nicer U.S. following the defeat of Donald Trump found out otherwise this past week. Although there is still not a successor to Dennis Shea as the Deputy USTR to the WTO, the message being delivered by career deputy David Bisbee under instructions from Washington sounds the same. The Biden White House expects little to be accomplished at the upcoming 12th WTO ministerial conference, it wants Geneva to focus on fixing the WTO’s institutional disfunction, and there will be no new jurists for the appellate body until American complaints are answered. While the UN has made some progress on addressing climate change, the WTO remains unable to find solutions for ending the destruction...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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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.