TTIP Needs Coherence EU negotiators say that future Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations will be less burdened by the demands of the French because they obtained language potentially exempting cultural/audio-visual services from the outcome. However, those in the U.S. financial community and their regulators appear determined to neutralize the U.S. leverage advantage by demanding that financial services be exempted. There are now reportedly some members of Congress that say transatlantic financial regulations should harmonized. Based on direct experience, U.S. aggies could/should advise that resisting coherence is a short-term fools' game. Activists Lack Accountability Bravo to the British Advertising Stan...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Unlike the 2022 fertilizer shock, today’s disruption is rooted less in rerouted trade flows and more in damaged production capacity, raw material constraints and uncertain recovery timelines. That makes this a longer-duration risk for U.S. agricultural producers and retailers who must sec...
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.