The collapse of India's agriculture sector is apparent throughout the country and results from several factors. Due to the needs of a growing population, GOI has allowed the import of GM oil. However, its efforts to commercialize a specific domestic GM crop is being met with resistance. Collapsing Indian Agriculture Necessitates Imports Agriculture’s collapse in India is apparent almost everywhere. The sector contributes approximately 13 percent to the nation’s $2 trillion economy through employing 66 percent of the workforce. India has only 3 percent of global land resources and 5 percent of the water, although its agriculture supports 18 percent of the world’s population. Technical innovations were being adopted, but it seems the...
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...
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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.