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Unseriousness of Campaign Promises; Big is Better; Eating American

Unseriousness of Campaign Promises If the polls are correct, Joe Biden is elected president tomorrow and the question is what changes besides civility? Looking at his campaign promises potentially impacting agriculture there is a lot of repetition from the past, a past that was mostly different at the margins. Here are just a few of the more cynical items in the candidate’s quiver: Regional Food Systems: Mr. Biden’s support for small, local food supply chains is a rehash of the locavore movement during the Obama-Biden era. The number of small farms has increased, there are more so-called farmers’ markets and CSA’s, but Big Ag still dominates the supply chain. In the larger scheme of things, and it is large, sma...

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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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