Bill McCary

Mr. McCary is the directory and lead researcher projecting key crop areas and yields worldwide for the major producing countries. He and his team provide monthly or semi-monthly area and production forecasts usually starting 18 months ahead of harvest. A track record of many of his key forecast can be found on the IHS Markit FACE website. Since joining the company in 1983 in role of area and production analysts, he has visited several of the major crop-producing countries, making first had field observation. In Brazil, for example he visited its key soybean area annually for nearly 30 years for a month long survey to determine production as well as to understand the geography, culture, economics, etc. He is the line manager for the IHS Markit CROPS team, which forecasts usage and prices for corn, other feed grains wheat, rice, soybeans and other oilseeds, and vegetable oils, and cotton. Mr. McCary holds an undergraduate degree from Mississippi State University.