Regional News Drought in Romania has affected over 2 Mha of wheat, corn, rapeseed, and sunflower seed with about 40 percent of the crops having been destroyed. This is the fourth year of the past five in which drought has caused significant damage to Romania’s crops. Tunisia purchased 75 KMT of soft wheat – most likely from Black Sea origin – at prices between $243-246/MT C&F for September-October delivery. Milling Wheat Global wheat markets are short on bullish news and enthusiasm, which has led to widespread price declines over the past two weeks. The EU market has been the downside leader with pressure coming from the strong euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate. Additionally, EU wheat exports r...
There was heavy volume exiting soybeans, which dragged down the broader market today. The lack of a specific Chinese buying commitment for soybeans undermined speculators who had placed bets on state-directed trade. But even the Chinese do not totally ignore market fundamentals. They may still...
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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.