• United States Cattle on Feed Up 1 Percent in feedlots with capacity of 1,000 head - totaled 12.1 million. (This is the second highest February 1 inventory since the series began in 1996.) • Placements in feedlots during January totaled 2.02 million head – 3% percent above 2020. • Marketings of fed cattle during January totaled 1.82 million head - 6 percent below 2020. • Other disappearance totaled 56,000 head during January - 4 percent above 2020. ...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.