Black and White The European Food Safety Authority concluded after extensive research on the herbicide glyphosate that no “areas of critical concern” were found when it comes to potential harmful impacts of using the substance in plant protection. German Green Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir immediately disparaged the report, saying that, “For us, the EFSA study is a study that did not sufficiently take into account a key aspect, namely the impacts on nature.” This is of course absurd. To address challenges by critics, EFSA extended its review by nearly a year. Environmentalists demanded EFSA analyze every charge against the chemical, no matter how inherently flawed. They threw everything they had at th...
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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.