Death of Ag BidenomicsMuch has been written about Bidenomics. Its fans bemoan that the data is good, but the voters failed to appreciate that specific messaging; critics ridicule the policies for waste and misdirection. Bidenomics mostly doesn’t matter in agriculture where cyclicality is the driving factor. No matter the populist aims of Bidenomics that satisfied the National Farmers Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, agriculture is in a recession and capital deep companies will now eat the generally smaller but certainly unprepared entities. This dynamic may be hated but is a natural economic circle of life. Looking at all global statistics, and economic inflections are an important source of busines...
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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.