The end goal of the conference is to forge a new international agreement on climate change that would keep global warming below 2 degrees centigrade by the year 2100, while the Green Climate Fund lists “agriculture and related land management” as one of its priority areas. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will get underway in Paris next week and extend through 11 December. The confab is officially known as the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) and is best described as the annual meeting of all the countries that have been gathering for the last 21 years to discuss climate issues. The end goal of the conference is to forge a new international agreement on climate change that would keep global warming below 2 degrees centigr...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
Developer's Note 24 August 2026: WPI recently completed an exercise that updated the codebase for this app and solved some of the discrepancies between our five-year average calculation and USDA's. There are a few lingering cases where early (late) starts (finishes) to the crop cycle resu...
Last week, September inflation reports showed that the Producer Price Index rose 1.3 percent, far ahead of the 0.6 percent consensus expectation, while the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.6 percent, in line with expectations. However, September also marked the 66th consecutive month that both...
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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.