Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
The Agricultural Outlook Americas conference was held in Boston this week.  This year’s event brought together a mix of growers, investors and technologists, with discussions ranging from  new investments on the farm to currency hedges.  The three day event contained too many interesting discussion [...]

Weather wires are buzzing this morning with talk of Hurricane Earl, as they should be – this is a big system with a lot of energy.  But don’t lose sight of what is following behind Earl.  While Fiona looks to take a track farther to the east, the system in the central Atlantic has organized [...]

Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
Here is the Weather Trends summary of the Indian Monsoon 2010 season to date.  A better start than last year, certainly, but as we have been stressing in numerous previous posts (see last week’s note as well as our note from early July), there will still be moisture [...]

Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
Nice article here on using the NDVI to avert food crises (via SpaceMart).