Posts Tagged ‘Commodities’
Employee Spotlight: Mickaël Attia
What do you get when you mix the experiences of an engineer, an agronomist, and a drone operator? One remarkable crop analyst. When Mickaël Attia joined the EarthDaily Agro team in 2017 he came with this solid foundation of practices, giving him the knowledge to effectively communicate crop data analysis to partners and clients. As…
Read MoreEmployee Spotlight: Natalja Skuratovic
Describe your professional background. My professional background is in commodity trading, and I see the real benefits of agriculture-specific remote sensing for the P/L accounts of traders. Commodity trading is about managing the price risk in selling and buying of underlying commodities, based on supply and demand, while hedging or locking in all variables. Anticipating…
Read MoreYield Monitoring Case Study – Iowa Corn
In November 2018, the USDA lowered Iowa’s corn yield estimate to 198.0 bpa from its September estimate of 206.0 bpa. This caught many people by surprise – but not our Agriquest® tool customers. Learn how they were able to keep ahead of the curve and how we’re continuing to improve our services.
Read MoreMonitoring the Top 10 Agricultural Producing Countries
Recently, Yahoo! Finance shared a list of the Top 20 Agricultural Producing Countries in the World. As the article notes: “The agriculture industry combines agricultural production with theories of marketing – where distribution channels and exports come into play. While over the years scientific advancement has aided production, the costs pertaining to development of a value…
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