Weather and Crops Between 28 November and 5 December, soil moisture levels greatly increased in Argentina. Between 25-100 millimeters of rain fell over the northeast agricultural area on 7 December and 11 December.The barley crop harvest has been delayed by the rainfall over Buenos Aires and La Pampa during the past two weeks. Farmers reported that the yields are lower than expected because of the fungal diseases that took advantage of the excessive moisture and low radiation activity. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange last week released its weekly agricultural outlook, which noted that about 17 percent of the area has been harvested with an average yield of 2.6 MT/hectare. The final production estimate was therefore reduced by roughly 500...
Key Takeaways: Brazil confirmed a Newcastle disease outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Santa Catarina on 18 October, raising concerns about potential disruptions to poultry exports despite the outbreak being confined to a single facility thus far. Mexico and Malaysia have imposed nationwi...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
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WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.