June 24, 2025
HJR Ag Brief: Biofuels Update
The recent RVO proposal laid out far more bullish targets than we had anticipated, and also put forward potential modifications to RIN values for imported fuels/feedstocks. That, combined with potential changes to 45Z rules, results…
May 30, 2025
BZ’s Competitive Advantage Accelerates as Logistics Cost Gap Shrinks
Brazil’s farmers have long benefited from both the ability to produce 2-3 crops per year and relatively low land conversion costs. Technological improvements have fostered higher yields that have improved its cost profile further (BZ…
May 15, 2025
BG: NT More Challenged, but Prospective Policy Changes Bolster H2’25/2026 Outlook
Bunge put up a materially stronger-than-expected Q1 due to lower-than-expected corporate expense and stronger Processing results. It maintained the full-year guide, but changed some components, including a material reduction in its full-year projected interest expense….
April 8, 2025
BG: Q1 Preview, Updated Outlook
Extreme uncertainty continues to dominate the narrative into Q1 earnings, but the H2 bias has turned somewhat more positive. Consequently, we have updated our BG estimates – our 2025 goes to $7.75 ($7.69), while our…
March 29, 2025
HJR Ag Brief: How Big Must the RVO Be?
Post the ongoing build in global crush capacity (U.S. most pronounced), biofuel policy and crush margins have become inextricably linked. Edible oil demand growth is relatively meager, while global livestock production expansion currently materially lags…
February 13, 2025
BG: Updated Outlook, Estimates
BG reported Q4 results that disappointed both relative to HJR/consensus and guidance; we believe it is the 1st time since Heckman assumed the CEO role that it has missed guidance and, in our view, is…
January 30, 2025
Potential Tariff Fallout
If Trump’s threat to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico February 1 comes to fruition, it would potentially be hugely impactful to our coverage and a discussion is justified. It bears…
January 21, 2025
Agribusiness Outlook Update; Estimate Revisions
Our agribusiness coverage has been roiled by a combination of global biofuel policy shifts/uncertainty, growing global soy surplus/tighter corn supply, ongoing trade shifts, and the long anticipated fallout from aggressive capacity expansion. These have resulted…
December 12, 2024
FX Exacerbating an Already Challenged U.S. Agribusiness Backdrop
The imminent changeover in Administrations is of greater import for our coverage universe than many other sectors as it portends material changes on multiple fronts, including regulatory policy (food and biofuels) and tariffs. Many of…
November 20, 2024
The RFK Calculus
In an early September WSJ Op-Ed, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) laid out prospective policy ideas that warrant examination given his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – his nomination…