One day after losing their bid in California to require labeling of foods produced with biotech, antagonists are saying they will "out" foods with such content, creating public shame and thus loss of market share. The Environmental Working Group and others are determined to fight a multi-year campaign to achieve their labeling objective. Given the fact that most foods contain some biotech, it is pretty easy to pick on any product and they are likely to pick on those most at risk of public backlash, like baby food or foods for the immune-depressed.Conventional agriculture needs to orchestrate an assault on the alternative foods that are funding the foodies. For example, highlighting the recent study by Steve Sexton via UC Berkeley that food...
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.