As we wrote yesterday, while the House Agriculture Committee finished its version of the reconciliation bill, the House Ways and Means Committee is working it its portion. Late yesterday, an outline of tax changes to pay for the reconciliation bill was released, which confirmed that the proposed changes to the stepped-up basis for capital gains that agriculture and commodity groups oppose was dropped from the Ways and Means bill. The next stage of the process for the tax provisions, however, lies with the Senate Finance Committee. Committee member, and opponent of the proposal that he has labeled a “political football,” Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) says he is not sure what the majority side of the Committee “is think...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.