NASA has combined with Columbia University to produce a study (Geophysical Research Letters), which claims that fine particulate matter from food production creates as much PM2.5 pollution as all other human activities combined. Regulating Farm Dust U.S. EPA fought back hard against charges a few years ago that it was planning to regulate and stop dust blowing from farms. The agency was mocked by the agricultural sector for buffoonery. Now NASA has combined with Columbia University to produce a study (Geophysical Research Letters), which claims that fine particulate matter from food production creates as much PM2.5 pollution as all other human activities combined. However, regulating farm dust is now recognized as conceptually silly, and...
What You Need to Know Today: Grain futures fell hard overnight after the USDA’s Crop Conditions report showed better-than-expected ratings for corn and soybeans, despite difficult weather last week. The Conditions report was even more bearish in light of meaningfully beneficial rains acr...
Key Takeaways: New Mexico’s Clean Transportation Fuel Program expands demand for low-carbon fuels and creates another market for renewable feedstocks, adding incremental pressure to already limited supplies of lower-carbon inputs. Growing competition for waste-based feedstocks such as an...
As WPI reported on 17 July, the recently passed budget reconciliation bill in the House Budget Committee includes $12 billion in emergency farm assistance. This would be the seventh of the past nine years with ad hoc farm payments (FY2018, FY2019, FY2020, FY2022, FY2023, FY2024, and potentially...
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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.