How We Work
Alluvia Research is a tropical agriculture research company. We operate a large, private, exclusive network composed of more than 75 agricultural academics, extension researchers, and professional agronomists who are on the ground in the 16 most important tropical regions for key commodity crops. Each week we generate agronomic data and yield predictions for these crops that heretofore have never been available. To generate these predictions, our regional experts gather agronomic indication data for the crop in which they specialize and report on this information each week. This data is then passed through our series of proprietary crop/region-specific machine learning models to generate yield predictions for the upcoming or current harvests in each country. We also collect large amounts of qualitative data from each expert, accurately detailing the current production or harvest conditions in each country. The raw quantitative data, qualitative data, and yield predictions are packaged as research products and are intended to give our clients best-in-industry knowledge of how current conditions will affect the future supply of five tropical commodities.
Each of our experts have been carefully selected and assigned to a specific crop depending on their publication history, professional and/or academic background, affiliations, and CV. These researchers are true experts in their field and are highly motivated to provide top-quality information due to their professional specializations as well as their own intellectual interests in our research methodologies. The TCRP is designed to provide firms with unprecedented real-time, accurate, reliable, and usable data for each of our five covered crops.
Alluvia Research provides information that is not currently available elsewhere. The tropics are largely an information desert, agriculturally speaking. In the United States or European Union, finding agronomic data on current corn or soybean production conditions is relatively straightforward, as there are many different media and professional services companies providing public coverage of these conditions. This is not the case in the tropics, as the 16 most important producing countries are less financially developed nations without the luxury of robust agricultural reporting. Universities, satellite research institutions, and IBCs in these countries maintain steady communication with surrounding rural farming communities. Through these communications, institutional researchers are made privy to significant off-market industry reports regarding crop production and harvest conditions (e.g., regional reports on increased coffee leaf rust outbreaks in Santa Bárbara, Honduras, reports of consistent high temperatures impairing sugar synthesis rates in Sao Paulo sugarcane, etc.). These reports, however, are generally not made public or published anywhere online; because of this, it is nearly impossible to find reliable information about current agronomic conditions in these countries. By partnering with experts strategically positioned within regions’ top institutions, Alluvia Research is tapping into this off-market knowledge pool and filtering this information through our network straight to clients. This data is collected through a series of region/crop-specific surveys that were built from the ground up to analyze the most important production indicators for each crop. These surveys are dynamic; we modify them to align with current agronomic conditions based on our experts’ feedback. The TCRP is designed to provide our clients with an edge in the most literal sense.
The five pillars of our research:
To predict supply trends before they begin. To accomplish this, we focus heavily on the agronomic factors that most contribute to each crop's growth and harvest performance at the regional level.
To provide high-quality and relevant supply-side quantitative & qualitative data that is based on producer-aggregate feedback.
To place a significant emphasis on frequency of data to solve the issue of "Information Lag" in each of these countries.
To determine the amount of each commodity that will ultimately be exported from each country, not just determine the performance of the underlying crop.
To package our data in as descriptive yet concise a way as possible to give your institution the information needed each week to either:
Evaluate your positions in the market
Provide your faculty or staff with intellectually interesting & unique global insights
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