Europe’s new Farm to Fork strategy includes ambitious targets to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use, which should yield some skepticism. The goal is to slash fertilizer use by 20 percent and cut the amount of pesticides and antibiotics in use by 50 percent – all by 2030. There is also the target of tripling the amount of land in organic production to 25 percent of area. Officials clarify this is a “vision,” which means it is unlikely to be achieved. Fertilizer use has already declined by 30 percent from its peak in 1985 but the application of potash and phosphate is forecast by the industry to increase. Most fertilizer is used for cereal and oilseed crops, so competitor producers in the Americas will be cheer...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.