Some in the biofuel community are lamenting that U.S. EPA slightly reduced the blend requirements for their prized fuel, but the U.S. Navy has announced plans to launch a carrier group using a blend of biofuel. Land Grab Defueled During the heydays of the last bull market, activist defenders of inefficient third world agriculture and the media warned regularly that China and multinationals would grab land in Africa and then export food right past hungry peasants to the numerous buyers in Beijing and Shanghai. WPI was the lone contrarian voice in books of the time such as Land Grab: The Race for the World’s Farmland. Now Deborah Brautigam has put the myth to death with Will Africa Feed China, in which she notes that it was all the product...
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.