Exaggerating Goliath Officials in the Biden Administration are determined to take down America’s big corporations and if they follow the focus of Karl Marx in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts that preceded Das Kapital, they will also set their sights on Big Ag. The large, landed gentry were the FANGGs of Marx’s era. Wall Street Journal senior correspondent Jacob M. Schlesinger notes that the Biden Administration’s attack on Big Business is not about economics, but rather social and political goals. The public would argue that Amazon has been inherently good for them, but the modern day Brandeisians hired by the White House are solely focused on size. Schlesinger notes that one of the Administration’s chief 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...
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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.