Sacrificing the Future The ASPCA has announced $100,000 in grants for its Fund to End Factory Farming. Like others in the small is better camp, the result of their ambition would be a much worse off world. Solving issues like climate change, food security and clean water will require immense amounts of technology only developed via scale. Large companies are investing in artificial intelligence that will fuel synthetic biology as a solution to everything from plastic waste to turning CO2 into fertilizer. Small, nostalgic farms and local processors do not have the capital to pay for such solutions. Returning farming to the past will not solve the problems of the future. Anti-industrial agriculture is the anti-future. Phosphorus Paradox Ph...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.