President Biden has announced his intention to nominate Alexis Taylor as Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. Taylor has served as the Director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture since late 2016. Previously, she was Deputy Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Ag Services during the Obama administration; that was prior to the domestic Farm Services Agency (FSA) and Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) being split between two separate undersecretaries per the 2014 farm bill. Taylor will be the second person to serve in the trade-only role at USDA. The first was Ted McKinney, former Director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, and now CEO of the National Association of State Departments of Agric...
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Lobelia (/loʊˈbiːliə, lə-/[4][5][6]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species,[7] with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.[8] They are known g...
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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.