As WPI readers already know, Saturday morning brought news that Hamas and Hezbollah fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented attack on Israel and captured several towns in the south of the country. Israel has declared war in response and launched a military campaign to retake its towns and retaliate against the terrorist organizations. As one would expect, this sent crude oil futures sharply higher and broader commodity market joined in the rally, at least initially. Grain markets shouldn’t be affected by the conflict, other than that rising oil prices and inflation tend to support commodity values, but headline-reading algos are more sensitive to attacks and wars after the Russia-Ukraine war. Traders seemed to realize this fact...
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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.