Regional News The EU Commission’s latest crop update highlights the divergent but consistently challenging conditions faced by European farmers this year. The report cites too much rain over France, Germany, and other western European countries has hindered winter wheat plantings. At the same time, drought over Eastern Europe (including northern Bulgaria and southern Romania) and the Baltics is hampering establishment of winter crops. Algeria, one of the largest buyers of European wheat, is capping its annual wheat imports at 4 MMT this year. The cap was lowered from 6.2 MMT last year in an effort to “preserve foreign currency and reduce Algerian imports of cereals”. The country has been trying to reduce its wheat...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
We have described the long-term investment climate in crop and livestock production, using data primarily from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The data provided background on the current investment climate and outlook for agricultural capital formation. Our conclusion was that investment...
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.