With no overnight trading for comparison and shortened trading hours today, volume was low and there were no dramatic shifts. Friday’s agricultural futures trading mostly reinforced current trends. Those include:Trading this week lopped off the most value from wheat and lean hogsThe March HRW contract has been down for five of the past six weeks and hit a new contract lowThe March HRS contract has declined in six of the past seven weeksCorn, live cattle and the soy complex all changed by a fraction of one percent, indicating stable fundamentals11292024MC_weekchange.png 22.23 KBThis has been somewhat consistent with the month of November, where all three wheats and soyoil took the biggest beatings. 11292024MC_Novchange.png 22.19 KBUSDA’...
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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.