House Agriculture Committee Ranking Minority Member Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota) announced the new Democratic members of the House Agriculture Committee on 13 January. In all, five members left the Committee and six new ones were added.House Agriculture Committee Ranking Minority Member Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota) announced the new Democratic members of the House Agriculture Committee on 13 January. The trend from the 2010 and 2014 elections of Republican-dominated rural congressional districts continued in 2016 and leaves far fewer farm district Democrats to fill out the agriculture committee assignment. Of the six new Democratic committee members, three have distinct urban backgrounds, two represent largely urban districts and one is t...
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.