The promised program to aid farmers hurt by the trade conflict with China and others will be $12 billion, according to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue at a press briefing this afternoon (see Trade Mitigation Funds for details). President Trump is scheduled to speak in Iowa tomorrow, and he will no doubt tout the program as helping farmers deal with the financial strains of lower crop prices. As an aside, there is no way of providing aid to producers hurt by Trump’s trade policies that can offset the resulting market distortions. The risk is that the way the aid program is structured will add to the distortions and thus widen the harm those policies cause. Overnight futures prices for wheat, corn and soybeans headed lower as the trade di...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
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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.