China Conducts Soil Pollution Survey On 13 June, China's Ministry of Land and Resources announced that the government plans to conduct a nationwide survey on soil pollution. Soil samples will be collected at multiple depths in order to determine the condition of the soil and the impact of human activity. Even though there is not yet a precise date for the release of the survey results, this marks one of the first times that the government has made such an announcement. Previously news about soil pollution has been strictly censored as a topic for the national media, and it has been seen as available only for internal discussion by specialists and closed-door decision making by government officials. A recent food safety scandal of cadmium...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Unlike the 2022 fertilizer shock, today’s disruption is rooted less in rerouted trade flows and more in damaged production capacity, raw material constraints and uncertain recovery timelines. That makes this a longer-duration risk for U.S. agricultural producers and retailers who must sec...
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.