Following is an end-of-the-week roundup on some percolating policy matters: Steel Tariffs: President Trump signed the steel and aluminum tariff order yesterday. However, Mexico and Canada were exempted to allow the NAFTA renegotiations to continue. The EU has already drafted a retaliation list that includes some non-major but politically important products: peanut butter, impacting top peanut state and home to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue; bourbon, which comes from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home state of Kentucky; and cranberries, a key product of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin. It also targets two non-ag iconic American products, Harley Davidson motorcycles (also from Ryan’s Wisconsin) an...
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A pika (/ˈpaɪkə, ˈpiːkə/ PY-kə, PEE-kə[3][4]) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears.[5] The large-eared pi...
Gloriosa is a genus of 12 species in the plant family Colchicaceae, and includes the formerly recognised genus Littonia. They are native in tropical and southern Africa to Asia, and naturalised in Australia and the Pacific as well as being widely cultivated.[3] The most common English names are...
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.