Livestock Feed Demand Slows in Q4 Data from the surveys of China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) Affairs and the China Feed Industry Association show feed output for October at 25.2 MMT. That represents a .2 percent increase from a year ago but a month-on-month decline of 4.1 percent. Market sentiment suggests feed output fell even further in November. Through the first ten months of 2021 feed production has reached 243.6 MMT, a 14.9 percent improvement over the same period for 2020. Of that total, 106 MMT has gone to the hog sector, a 49.5 percent jump from the year prior. Meanwhile, high prices for corn and soybeans have pushed feed manufacturers to announce their third price hike in the past month. These...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
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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.