War on Big Ag At a conference hosted by anti-Big Ag activist group Farm Action, vegan and anti-Big Ag U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) called for a moratorium on Combined Animal Feed Operations (CAFO’s). He called the large livestock feeding enterprises cruel to animals, environmentally harmful and said they divert government resources from small farmers. Booker sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee but is unlikely to find many supporters on the panel for his positions. Separately, environmental groups are complaining that the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management and USDA’s Forest Service are charging western cattle ranchers the same fee for grazing their animals on federal land that was set 37 years...
A federal appeals court paused a USITC ruling against President Trump’s use of Section 122 to impose 10-percent global tariffs. A bipartisan group of 80 House members asked USTR to investigate specialty crop imports from Mexico for unfair trade practices. India notified the WT...
From WPI Consulting
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.