Long-time clients know that every so often we dust off that old and cliched law of market economics that declares, "the best cure for high prices is high prices." Everyone who deals with goods or services, the value of which changes in relationship to their supplies and the demand for them, has experienced the ability of prices to alter the volume of goods and services available as well as the volume of demand. This is true for raw materials and manufactured products. The prices that manufacturers and sellers of such items as automobiles, appliances, clothing and food products are willing to accept is a clear reflection of how their supplies of the products stack up against the demand for them. Lawyers, doctors, accountants, consultants a...
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...
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.