30,000 Feet EU Council President Charles Michel told the Atlantic Council this week that if Europe and the U.S. do not solve the bilateral fight over aircraft subsidies that China will come in and dominate the market. This could be true either way. China has been backward engineering everything it buys from the west. Europe no doubt needs a solution since Airbus sold more than double the airplanes in global commerce as Boeing in 2019. But airplanes are just one product under threat from the central planning of Beijing. President Biden warned more broadly that without action, China is “going to eat our lunch.” It isn’t just aircraft but lunch itself, the agrifood industry that needs more collaboration and less beggar thy n...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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.