Biden Rural Outreach A politician going into the geography of the opposition is usually connoted as a sign of strength. Nothing in the Biden presidency polling suggests strength but the President’s foray into rural America this week connotes a strategy of at least reducing the opposition. Rural America is Republican territory and while the Biden Administration has highlighted populist rural fixations like attacking Big Ag and subsidizing small meat packing startups, it has also maintained subsidies for Big Ag. There is caution that pep rallies amidst continued rural concerns about inflation reinforces tone deafness, aggies like any sector crave attention. Trump gave the sector attention but also a harmful trade war. Biden is now givi...
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.