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Biotech for Environment; Transatlantic Negotiating Mandate; Indonesian Heat

Biotech for Environment Greens and others in the European Parliament reportedly reacted badly to rapporteur Jessica Polfjärd's initiative that would broaden the EU Commission’s proposal for lessening regulation of new genomic techniques. Yet it is genetic modification technologies that are going to enable the EU to meets its goal of curbing nitrogen losses in agriculture. Polfjärd’s proposal would expand the use of NGT to organic production, which proponents of organic food argue violates the very premise of this production technique. However, organic production leaches nitrogen just like conventional production and the manure delivers fewer nutrients. A lot more plants could fix nitrogen and solve the leaching proble...

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Market Commentary: CBOT Slips as Demand Worries Overtake Supply-Side Surprises

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Deep Bench to Fight RFK; China Market Risk; Thankless Job

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Last year, India restricted non-Basmati rice exports believing there would be a weather-related short supply. Production was ample and now the country faces record high inventories that will likely be dumped on the world market. The OECD calculates that Indian farmers are implicitly taxed $120...

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Senate Committee Changes and Ethanol Legislation

As WPI noted a week ago on 4 November, As a general rule, a Republican agenda is likely to be friendlier to liquid fuels, especially petroleum fuels, whereas a Democrat agenda is more likely to include a role for electric vehicles, and a renewable fuels policy that will focus on reducing c...

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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.

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