6 July is the date when the U.S. will impose its first round of tariffs on imports from China and that country will retaliate with its own 25 percent tariffs on imports from the U.S., including a number of agricultural commodities with soybeans the most prominent. This has created a major problem for U.S. farmers since roughly half of all U.S. soybean exports go there. Said another way, about 25 percent of annual U.S. soybean production is sold and shipped to China. As of today, we have no reason to believe that the U.S. and China will agree to suspend the intended tariffs, although some last-minute arrangement is always possible. Fear of the potential loss of all or most of the Chinese market, beginning in early April, has done cons...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
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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.