Food Crisis in Mexico Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) visits President Joe Biden in the White House next month and farmers in Canada and the U.S. want a message conveyed – don’t do it. AMLO has pledged to ban GMO corn in 2024, he has already begun phasing out glyphosate, and he has stalled approval on 19 new GMO traits. The agriculture industry in the U.S. and Canadian, and larger parts of the industry in Mexico are warning of large adverse impacts from the policy shift. On behalf of the industry, WPI completed a study (see attached) of the impacts, which will include billions of dollars of costs to all North Americans, but especially Mexican consumers. Moreover, the long-term adverse costs to...
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.