Brazil’s Embrapa, the lead government agricultural research agency, says the goal is for the country to become self-sufficient in wheat, and that goal does not include the use of transgenic plants. But maybe it should. It is not achieving increased wheat production via yield, that is down 16 percent since 2016/17. Instead, it has increased the area harvested by 18 percent. Better use in genetics in wheat might be more sustainable approach. Global production of wheat by major exporters could use a technical helping hand. Kazakhstan is now in the top eight exporting countries, but its wheat yield is less than 20 percent that of the EU. And the EU achieves its lofty yields through heavy doses of fertilizer, again not very sustainable. A...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.