Regional News Kazakhstan’s ban on feedstuffs including oats, rye and hay begins today, as announced in the 12 August 2021 order by the deputy Minister of Agriculture. The ban is in effect through 23 February 2022. Milling Wheat World physical wheat markets are mixed to start the week with the recent declines in Chicago and Paris wheat futures pressuring some markets. Black Sea offers continue to strengthen due to tightening Russian supplies amid worsening drought, declining spring wheat yields, and slow farmer selling in the country. Demand has recently become the key driver of EU wheat prices, with Romania’s recent competitiveness in international tenders supporting the EU market. French and German FOB offe...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.