Dumbing Down Trans-Atlantic Goals EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht says a free trade agreement with the U.S. must include increased access to state-level government procurement and cooperation on state-level regulations. Meanwhile, Brussels is pursuing a policy to allow its own individual member states to decide whether to allow the use of agricultural biotechnology that is otherwise approved by the broader EU. In a signal that the effort will have a limited likelihood of success, De Gucht also reportedly wants the negotiation to be a single undertaking that does not necessarily lead to complete tariff elimination. Dumbing Down California Ag The state of California, deep in debt, losing population and burdened with a host of other...
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...
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...
Key Takeaways: Brazil’s growing role in global agriculture is accompanied by a major vulnerability: the country imports approximately 88 percent of its fertilizer needs. High natural gas costs and development challenges have limited domestic nitrogen and potash production despite Brazil&...
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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.