Tech Future U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will be meeting this week with EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and hearing complaints about American tax credits being limited to U.S. built electric vehicles and components. It is a protectionist policy, but it is not the reason Europe risks losing out on this new technology. The Continent has had a bad relationship with technology only for the past few decades. Before WWII, it invented and produced to the world’s envy. More recently, it rejected GMO’s in agriculture and instead propped up the past with geographic indicators. It sought to further its own tech companies by punishing the American FAANG companies while imposing strict privacy limitations on all t...
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.