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Tight Margins Prevent Disruption; Hungary Isn’t Hungry; Two-Tiered Pricing

Tight Margins Prevent Disruption While populist politicians complain about corporate greed, the businesses with long term success in agriculture achieve their success via tight margins. Bloomberg notes that upstarts in the “agrifoodtech” space like Farmers Edge Inc. and Gro Intelligence failed to disrupt the sector like eBay, Uber and Amazon. That is because they contrasted the price of a bushel of wheat and the cost of a loaf of bread and mistakenly assumed some arbitrage opportunity. The upstarts reveal not just their ignorance of how the sector works but that of the investors that handed them billions of dollars to waste. Hungary Isn’t Hungry Hungary assumes the six-month rotating presidency of the EU in July and in...

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Export Sales Bouy Grains; Argy Weather, Slow Exports Sink Soybeans

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Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.54/bushel, up $0.0025 from yesterday's close. Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.465/bushel, up $0.055 from yesterday's close. Mar 25 Soybeans closed at $9.8975/bushel, down $0.075 from yesterday's close. Mar 25 Soymeal closed at $310.5/short ton, down $4.4 from y...

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Argentine Weather Emboldens CBOT Bulls

The CBOT found its way to higher ground on Thursday after an old-school hard opening with no overnight session to guide the market. Argentina’s weather is starting to become more impactful for grain futures as dryness persists into the mid-January forecast, which could disrupt early corn and so...

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Livestock Roundup: Butterfat Boom

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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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