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The Acreage Game

Analysts with a longer-term view of the markets are starting to put together budget worksheets for 2016 crops. The winter farm meeting season is about to embark, and the potential for 2016 profits doesn’t look very good.Analysts with a longer-term view of the markets are starting to put together budget worksheets for 2016 crops. The winter farm meeting season is about to embark, and the potential for 2016 profits doesn’t look very good, based on current new crop prices. Prior to last year, there were six-seven years when there really wasn’t a bad or poor cropping choice in terms of returns per acre. Everything looked good. Cropping choices boiled down to rotational considerations more than anything else. That all changed when markets collap...

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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.

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