Insights

Authored by the American Prime Sustainable Solutions team, with insights and technical feedback from Dr. Jeff Basara For U.S. winter wheat producers, the 2026/2027 season is shaping up around a difficult combination of opportunity and risk. Global wheat markets have strengthened as renewed disruption to Black Sea grain flows raises concerns about the reliability of […]

Authored by the American Prime Sustainable Solutions team, with insights and technical feedback from Dr. Jeff Basara One of the strongest El Niño events in decades is developing in the Pacific — and its timing and associated impacts during the fall and winter will be particularly important for U.S. agriculture throughout the remainder of 2026 […]

Authored by the American Prime Sustainable Solutions team, with insights and technical feedback from Dr. Jeff Basara As the U.S. corn crop enters the first half of August, attention is shifting from July heat toward grain fill and yield preservation. According to the latest USDA Crop Progress & Condition Report (released August 3, 2026; data […]

American Prime Sustainable Solutions Spring wheat across the Northern Plains is moving into the last stretch of the 2026 growing season under growing moisture stress. The timing matters. By late July, most fields are at or near grain fill, the stage when heat and dryness can reduce kernel size, test weight, and final yield. Some […]

By American Prime Sustainable Solutions Team, July 2026 As the 2026 winter wheat harvest continues across the Southern Plains, a growing number of indicators suggest that U.S. wheat production may fall short of expectations. From persistent drought conditions to reports of lower-than-average yield prospects, the season is increasingly shaped by weather-related challenges that have followed […]

Authored by the American Prime Sustainable Solutions team, with insights and technical feedback from Dr. Jeff Basara The 2026 planting season will be remembered not for one defining weather event, but for the numerous events that impacted agriculture across the United States (U.S.). In the span of a few weeks this spring, producers contended with […]

By Jorge Andrés C. Celis, Ph.D.  CEO, American Prime Sustainable Solutions Agriculture is on the verge of its biggest transformation in a century. And it’s not just about “AI” as a buzzword — it’s about deep learning models from convolutional neural networks to transformer architectures, combined with autonomous equipment that turns data into action in […]

In 2014, a severe drought caused widespread crop damage and the loss of thousands of cattle. For American Prime founder and CEO Jorge A. Celis, Ph.D., what stood out wasn’t just the scale of the disaster; it was that it shouldn’t have been a surprise.