Fake Solutions The EU’s 2017 report on intellectual property rights and customs enforcement finds that food products comprised nearly a quarter of the 31 million fake and counterfeit products seized at the border. Moreover, nearly 90 percent of those offending food items were sourced from China/Hong Kong. Unsurprisingly, the solution proposed in a European Citizens’ initiative is to apply country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on all food products. The initiative claims that this will prevent fraud, protect public health and ensure accurate information to the European consumer. Someone thinking that COOL is the solution also must believe that “Italian” olive oil never contains Spanish content, or that European products...
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.