World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services

What World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services does

WAEES (World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services) is a private, Columbia, Missouri-based consulting firm specializing in economic analysis at the intersection of global agriculture, biofuels, and agricultural policy. Founded in 2002 as Economic Consulting Group, renamed WAEES in 2011, and strengthened by the 2017 merger with Kruse Econometric Consulting, the firm is owned and led by Managing Principal Dr. John Kruse. WAEES serves agricultural trade organizations, government entities, agribusinesses, and universities with custom consulting engagements, policy advocacy support, and quarterly baseline forecasts. Notable documented clients include the United Soybean Board and the American Soybean Association, with engagements that have shaped positions on EPA biofuels policy (the 'half-RIN' question) and the economic consequences of removing seed oils from the U.S. food supply.

The firm's central asset is the GABE (Global Agricultural and Biofuels Partial Equilibrium Model), a proprietary structural econometric system simulating more than 25,000 equations across 48 countries/regions and covering 36 international commodities plus 16 U.S.-specific sectors spanning crops, livestock, and biofuels. GABE integrates policy frameworks, macroeconomic indicators, crude oil prices, technology adoption, and historical data, producing quarterly-updated baselines (1,200+ detailed tables of supply, demand, and prices) and multiple scenario analyses per year with projections through 2040. Sub-models cover Global Field Crops, Global Livestock & Dairy, Global Biofuels, U.S. Specialty Crops, U.S. Farm Income & Food Prices, and Global Land Use Change. WAEES is currently migrating the legacy Excel-based GABE stack into Python under Director & Senior Software Architect Brandon Laufer, supported by a University of Missouri co-op pipeline of approximately 10 student analysts.

WAEES monetizes exclusively through custom professional-services engagements sold via direct consulting relationships — no published pricing, no subscription products, and no indirect channels. Marketing is relationship-driven, relying on industry reputation, professional network referrals, and earned media in agricultural trade publications. The team is small (1–10 full-time staff including two Ph.D. economists and several Master's-level economists, plus co-op students) and the firm operates from a single Columbia, Missouri headquarters with global analytic reach defined by GABE's country and commodity coverage.

Name

World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services

Legal name

WAEES LLC

Website

https://waees-llc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

WAEES is a Columbia, Missouri-based economic consulting firm that delivers custom policy, market, and scenario analysis for global agriculture and biofuels using its proprietary GABE partial equilibrium model covering 36 commodities and 48 regions. It serves agricultural trade groups, government agencies, agribusinesses, and universities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Economic Consulting

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Carbon Market Data, Indices, Ratings & Price Reporting (MRPAs) (EUAGAIAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Enterprise Carbon Accounting & GHG Inventory Platforms (EUABAEAA)

Keywords

• Agricultural economic modeling
• Biofuels market forecasting
• Partial equilibrium modeling
• Agricultural policy analysis
• Scenario analysis consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: WAEES provides consulting services to public and private decision-makers including agricultural organizations, universities, government entities, and agribusinesses. Engagements are tailored to client-specific challenges in policy analysis, market forecasting, and scenario analysis.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

WAEES is a specialized research and consulting firm providing data-driven global agricultural and biofuels forecasting and scenario analysis. Its work centers on the proprietary GABE partial equilibrium model covering 36 commodities across 48 regions, delivering quarterly baseline forecasts and custom policy analysis to clients.

Product overview

WAEES is a specialized research and consulting firm offering a unified analytical platform centered on its proprietary GABE (Global Agricultural and Biofuels Partial Equilibrium Model) system. The core offering consists of scenario-driven consulting services and quarterly baseline forecasts covering 36 international commodities and 48 regions. The product portfolio includes specialized sub-models for Global Field Crops, Global Livestock & Dairy, Global Biofuels, U.S. Specialty Crops, U.S. Farm Income & Food Prices, and Global Land Use Change, all integrated within the GABE framework that projects outputs to 2040 for area, yield, production, consumption, trade, stocks, and prices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GABE (Global Agricultural and Biofuels Partial Equilibrium Model) WAEES's proprietary partial equilibrium model system that simulates over 25,000 equations across 48 countries and regions, covering 36 international commodities and 16 additional U.S.-specific sectors including crops, livestock, and biofuels.
• Baseline Analysis Proprietary global forecasts updated quarterly with over 1,200 detailed tables of agricultural and biofuels supply, demand, and prices.
• Scenario Analysis Contrasts baseline and policy-change conditions to measure economic and environmental impacts with precision, analyzing policy shifts, technological changes, market volatility, and climate variability.
• Biofuels Modeling Assesses feedstock availability, subsidy impacts, trade policy, and biofuel mandates across global markets.
• Policy & Trade Analysis Evaluates domestic supports, tariffs, and new policies using a globally integrated model framework.
• Technology Evaluation Quantifies the productivity, economic, and environmental gains of new and existing agricultural technologies.
• WAEES Insights Provides updates and analysis regarding current U.S. and global supply and demand, including crop area, yields, trade and domestic consumption.
• Global Field Crops Model Partial equilibrium model coverage for the global field crops commodity sector.
• Global Livestock & Dairy Model Partial equilibrium model coverage for the global livestock and dairy commodity sector.
• Global Biofuels Model Partial equilibrium model coverage for the global biofuels sector.
• U.S. Specialty Crops Model Partial equilibrium model coverage for U.S. specialty crops.
• U.S. Farm Income & Food Prices Model Partial equilibrium model coverage for U.S. farm income and food prices.
• Global Land Use Change Model Partial equilibrium model coverage for global land use change.

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Renewable Fuels Association (RFA): U.S. ethanol industry trade association that frequently commissions and consumes biofuels policy analysis of the type WAEES provides - adjacent rather than directly competitive, but a key ecosystem participant and potential repeat-client counterpart.

Broad incumbents

• USDA Economic Research Service (ERS): Federal government research agency that produces the canonical U.S. and global agricultural baselines, policy analysis, and food-price forecasts - the public-sector reference point that WAEES's GABE model emulates and competes against for government and association work.
• IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global): Global information services firm (now part of S&P) where WAEES founder John Kruse previously worked; it competes broadly across agricultural and biofuels commodity analysis at enterprise scale with much larger headcount and data infrastructure.
• S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts): S&P's commodities platform offers broad agricultural and biofuels price benchmarks, analytics, and forecasts across many commodities, competing directly with WAEES's commodity and biofuels coverage but at much larger enterprise scale.

Direct peers

• AgResource Company: Independent agricultural research and advisory firm providing global market analysis, price forecasts, and policy commentary to commodity traders and agribusinesses - a comparable subscription-style independent consulting model to WAEES.
• Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research: Rabobank's in-house research arm produces global agricultural commodity outlooks, scenario analysis, and food-chain research that competes for many of the same agribusiness and policy clients served by WAEES.
• Doane Advisory Services (Farm Journal): Agricultural market research and advisory firm providing commodity outlooks, forecasts, and consulting to agribusiness clients across crops and livestock - similar independent niche positioning to WAEES.
• Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI): University of Missouri-affiliated research institute that produces baseline projections and policy analyses on U.S. and global agricultural markets - the closest analogue to WAEES's GABE framework; WAEES founder John Kruse previously co-directed its biofuels and transportation program.
• Informa Economics (IEG / Informa Agribusiness Consulting): Informa's agribusiness intelligence arm provides global commodity forecasting, biofuels analysis, and policy impact modeling that competes head-on with WAEES's GABE-driven consulting offering for agribusiness and association clients.
• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): Global CGIAR-affiliated research institute providing policy analysis, modeling, and forecasting on food, agriculture, and climate - overlapping directly with WAEES's policy scenario and biofuels/climate work.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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