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DecisionNext and IQ Foods Partnership Provides Retail and Food Service Customers More Buying Power

The most recent USDA cold storage report indicates cold storage stocks of meat and poultry are at 2.12 billion pounds, approximately 13% below year ago levels. As …

Meat Buying During a Black Swan Event: Two Approaches to Holiday Bone-In Ribs

DecisionNext Expands Partnership With Teys

According to Technavio/ReportLinker, the global protein market is poised to grow by $14.5 billion from 2020-2024, reaching nearly $40 billion. To assist Teys in their …

DecisionNext Helps Major Australian Grass-Fed Beef Producer Respond to a Crisis

COVID-19 upended the global meat value chain, forcing them to adapt rapidly. Luckily, DecisionNext was there to help. With large quantities of frozen food destined for …

Where 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 …

A 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 …

DecisionNext 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 …

DecisionNext 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 …

Market 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 …