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  • 10/09/09: Wetland habitat to be created in southern Sacramento County (Westervelt Ecological Services)
    Riparian forests will be planted and a habitat for salmon created as part of a wetland mitigation bank approved along the Cosumnes River in southern Sacramento County. Westervelt Ecological Services received federal and state approval Sept. 30 to create the 472-acre Cosumnes Floodplain Mitigation Bank. Credits from the bank will be sold to public and private developers to help offset the impacts of construction projects to wetlands. (Business Journal)
  • 10/08/09: FORESTS FOREVER PROGRAM TAKES CLASSROOM TO FOREST (Westervelt Natural Resource)
    Forestry professionals and volunteers join forces to deliver Forestry Awareness Week Now (FAWN) October 19-22 for fifth grade students in Tuscaloosa County Schools.
  • 10/08/09: The 2009 Crop: Who's Right, Lanworth, USDA or Stats Canada? (Lanworth)
    One of the most reviled statistics this past year was the 1.823 million acre Ontario corn number that Statistics Canada published this past spring. For several months before that estimate was published many professional Ontario grain traders were musing about 1.6 or 1.7 million acres of Ontario corn in 2009. (PhilipShaw.ca)
  • 10/07/09: Crop Prophets (Lanworth)
    Chicago firm Lanworth is doing the next best thing to snatching unreleased government data by recreating it from the outside. Lanworth is combining satellite images, analytical software, and on-the-ground reporting in an attempt to displace the USDA as the authority in forecasting planted acreage and crop yields. Lanworth president Shailu Verma explains that he thinks of his company as the Intel processor of agriculture. (Forbes)
  • 10/07/09: Lanworth: No Significant Changes (Lanworth)
    Standing apart from what seem to be consensus 13-billion-bushel corn crop expectations, private analytical firm Lanworth continues to project a crop closer to 12.2 billion bushels. (DTN Market Matters Blog)
  • 10/01/09: Lanworth Estimates Still Generating Talk (Lanworth)
    Talk this week of low test weights and disease issues in corn and disappointing soybean yields, set against estimates for record production from private analysts like FC Stone, has revived interest in the much lower projections DTN reported last month from another private analyst, Lanworth. (DTN Market Matters Blog)
  • 09/17/09: GOPHER TORTOISE CONSERVATION BANK ESTABLISHED IN MISSISSIPPI (Westervelt Ecological Services)
    Chickasawhay Gopher Tortoise Conservation Bank in Greene County, Mississippi, was the first bank of its kind entitled in Mississippi under new federal guidelines on September 17, 2009. 250 tortoises from Southeast Alabama and Southwest Mississippi will join remnant tortoise over the life of the project to repopulate in a longleaf pine habitat covering 1,220 acres.
  • 09/11/09: Tool Projects Crop Production (Lanworth)
    Lanworth combines frequent satellite imagery with intensive ground verification, knowledge of historic crop rotation and yield patterns, and computer-based simulations to project planted and harvested acreage and yield for corn, beans, and wheat in the U.S. and South America. The Chicago-based firm provides clients — grain companies, ethanol companies, financial funds, large farmers — with biweekly reports, and it releases summaries to Bloomberg subscribers ahead of USDA's monthly crop production report. (CropLife)
  • 09/09/09: Soybeans lower on non-threatening weather (Lanworth)
    Soybeans were modestly lower on fund selling and profit taking. Outside markets looked supportive but weren’t much of a factor for soybeans. The dollar did make a new low on the year while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up around 50 points and crude oil was modestly higher. Crop weather looks non-threatening over the near term, at least until late this month or early next month according to some forecasts, and this year’s crop is expected to be a new record. (Brownfield)
  • 09/04/09: Factoring in Genetics: Lanworth (Lanworth)
    How should one reckon the effects of improving genetics on corn yields? Corey Cherr, lead agronomist at private ag prediction firm Lanworth has a unique approach that he says exemplifies his company's different approach to forecasting. (DTN Market Matters Blog)

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