India Do-Over The sarcasm was too dry to be understood in yesterday's "War on the Poor" take on India's farm mechanization effort, and also failed to fully explain the situation. Thanks to friends in-country, the policy situation receives a more complete explanation of the ironies involved. It is a classic case of unintended consequences.In the 1980s bear market, various land banking schemes (CRP, WRP, etc.) with payments to farmers doubled in exchange for acreage limitation or set-asides led to the mantra that farmers were being paid not to farm. Now it can be said that India is paying farm workers not to work. The noble intentions of the country's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is to guarantee rural dwel...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
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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.