Public Health China Moves to Recovery Phase as Rest Of World Scrambles Through Wednesday morning, mainland China’s total confirmed cases for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) totaled 80,764, up 494 from the previous week. That marks the smallest weekly increase since initial phases of the outbreak. Outside of China, the difference in trends could not be starker, as newly confirmed cases in Italy, Iran, South Korea, France, Spain, and Germany have soared, bringing the non-mainland China total to 37,981 cases, an increase of 23,081 cases in the past seven days. Equally important, the number of deaths linked to the virus that have occurred outside of mainland China have risen to 1,121 with more than half occurring in Italy. In th...
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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.