Not Worth Its Salt The EU has been making inroads with its effort to expand protections for geographic indicators (GI), and this has forced U.S. producers and those from other countries to organize in opposition. The newly announced Consortium for Common Food Names worries that Brussels has extracted bilateral agreements from several countries and has support from some American GI products such as "Idaho potatoes" and "Kona coffee." This will force U.S. cheese exporters, for example, to rename their products going to restricted countries. Meanwhile, Brussels has granted so-called "protected status" to French sea salt (Sel de Guérande/Fleur de sel de Guérande) harvested off the coast of Brittany. Given the fact that soluble salt can be ca...
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.