Former baseball great Yogi Berra, oft quoted for his malapropisms, once said, "if you come to a fork in the road, take it." That appears to be what the House of Representatives will do with the 2013 Farm Bill. One path of the fork leads to a stand-alone farm program bill and the other to a stand-alone nutrition bill. Today, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Oklahoma) said he'd go along with the splitting of the farm bill into farm programs and nutrition programs if the House leadership can get the votes to get it passed. He was previously opposed to the idea. Representative Marlin Stutzman (R-Indiana) and Representative Tim Heulskamp (R-Kansas), the two primary proponents of that plan and a current Agriculture Committee me...
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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.