A three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals chastised the U.S. EPA once again last Friday for a string of delays in taking action on a request to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos. It also rejected the agency’s request for a six-month extension to complete the review.A three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals chastised the U.S. EPA once again last Friday for a string of delays in taking action on a request to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos. It also rejected the agency’s request for a six-month extension to complete the review, giving it three months instead. The court had ruled in December 2015 that the EPA had to make a decision on the pesticide by the end of 2016, a timeline upheld by this latest action.In 20...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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.