Slowing Urban Sprawl American urban consumers are in a rage over eating local. Somehow the undocumented benefits include slowing the rise of the oceans and curing male pattern baldness. One legitimate upside that can be theorized is that the "eat local" movement will raise the value of urban adjacent land for agriculture and therefore could at least slow suburban sprawl. Subsidy Quid Pro Quo Brazil is warning that U.S. cotton and GSM credit program provisions in the farm bills pending on Capitol Hill still injure Brazilian growers, in some ways worse than under current law. At the same time, it hints that the problems could be solved with a small amount of "tweaking" and that Brasilia could tolerate a level of distortion! Such "toleran...
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.