Trading Barbs WTO: There is a special Agriculture Committee meeting at the WTO next week, and the disparate views of its members are being previewed ahead of it. The varied demands include the following: improvements in market access, disciplines on farm subsidies by rich countries, disciplines on farm subsidies by those that have recently increased them, special safeguards, public stockholding, etc. No one really needs to study up for the special meeting since the issues to be discussed have bounced around for nearly two decades under the failed Doha agenda. Illegal Meets Illegal: The EU claims that Donald Trump’s Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum are illegal. The initial solution from Brussels was to impose retaliatory tar...
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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.