With strong support for passing some extenders, the biodiesel tax credit and the cellulosic tax credit both have strong individual supporters who are likely to make sure those provisions are included with any package that moves.As we previewed last month, work had begun in Congress to address the expiring provisions in the tax code. This is an annual process of developing a tax extender package. There are roughly 50 items that expire annually which Congress routinely extends at the cost of about $47 billion. The last time these were extended was in the fiscal cliff deal struck at the beginning of 2013. That extension expired at the end of 2013 and has not been renewed. The Senate Finance Committee has put out a tax extender package for this...
From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.