It is springtime, and for those who are involved with or interested in grain and oilseed production, transportation, storage, processing and/or exporting, this is the time when we start looking ahead at each new crop year with greater intensity. Concerns about the current year may still be with us, as is certainly the case in the current 2012/13 crop cycle. We do not ignore whatever may be going on now, but we tend to push it aside as we contemplate prospects for the next crop cycle, which currently is 2013/14. We are in transition from the old crop cycle to the new one.USDA's May WASDE plays a very important role in this transition process. USDA/WAOB analysts usually start their transition process before the rest of us do. In early May t...
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An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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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.