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Greenham USA Partners with DecisionNext to Unlock Predictive Insights in Beef Procurement
SAN FRANCISCO, California – October 22, 2025 – DecisionNext, the leading AI platform for commodity market forecasting and decision support, today announced a new …
Read ArticleWhere Meat-Buying Intuition Meets Artificial Intelligence:
Let’s Set The Stage: It’s July 2020 and Ryan from Meat Street Grocery and Taylor from Eagan Distribution are running their buying desks from home due to COVID-19. Because …
Read ArticleA New Era in Mining:
The COVID-19 pandemic is having an ever-evolving effect on the greater mining industry in 2020. Every day brings news of market shifts, idle sites, and disease reach. But …
Read ArticleDecisionNext Announces Expanded Partnership With Johnsonville
The DecisionNext technology provides Johnsonville insights into sourcing, harvest planning and pricing. These insights allow the established sausage innovator the …
Read ArticleDecisionNext Names Michael Farrand as Global Head of Food
Farrand remarked, “Having had the pleasure of working with the talented DecisionNext team over the past few months it became clear to me that our values and goals …
Read ArticleMarket Forecasting: how to do it, consume it, make it useful, and make it repeatable
How to do it 1. You want a simple model Simplicity is important. We are talking mathematical models to predict the future. And it is very tempting when building these …
Read ArticleMcMarkets: Timing the McRib Reintroduction
Where does the McRib come from? The McRib patty is made from ground and formed pork butts. Pork butts are not the part of the hog that the name might suggest, but well …
Read ArticleDealing in Disruption - Industry Perspectives with Hal Sankey
These experiences give him a unique lens to this COVID-19 environment and its impact on the beef industry. While 9/11, BSE, and the 2008 economic crisis were certainly …
Read ArticleDealing in Disruption - Industry Perspectives with Mike Farrand
Farrand sees this epidemic as stirring up a more fundamental, structural change to the industry. Clues of a ‘new normal’ might reveal themselves across consumer shopping …
Read ArticleThe Beauty of Backtesting in Forecasting
In fact, every forecast will be wrong. The variable is determining how wrong it will be. When a forecasting model lacks validity, it leads to detrimental business …
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