Whenever problems become large enough or important enough to attract national attention -- or at least the attention of the national press -- politicians are quick to assign blame on whomever or whatever they can identify as the cause. The urgency to identify and blame the culprits expands in direct proportion to the enormity of the problem. So it was in the immediate wake of the financial crisis of 2008. When Lehman Brothers collapsed under the weight of holding bad positions in a variety of financial instruments, and for similar reasons AIG would have suffered the same fate except for government intervention, the political class quickly determined that most of Lehman's and AIG's losses came as a result of activities in unregulated, over...
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...
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.