Big crops and low prices have been a fact of market life for so long that it is worth pointing out something of a change in the early weeks of 2017.Beginning with 2013/14, the U.S. and the rest of the world have enjoyed four years of generally favorable weather for field crops as farmers produced huge, often record-large volumes of wheat, corn and soybeans. All of this culminated for U.S. farmers with the massive corn and soybean crops harvested in 2016, a year when the country’s yield records were set for all three crops. World demand also expanded at a record pace during this same four-year period, although it did not keep up with the growth in production. The result is that world stocks have risen to record levels. While not setting reco...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.