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Limits on Agriculture and Transport The upcoming U.S. election is occurring amidst geopolitical upheaval and macroeconomic malaise, but there is a pan-Pacific policy positive on the nearby horizon. Storage and Transportation Challenges Impact Soybean Sector This year's record U.S. soybean crop is already resulting in difficulties with storing, transporting and exporting the crop. The need to improve rail and barge shipping infrastructure is another issue. West Coast Port Backups: Commodity Groups Call for Federal Intervention Commodity groups and shippers blame labor slowdowns for West Coast port problems; labor cites lack of infrastructure to handle shipping boom. U.S. Gaining Market Share Through Improved Transportation Efficiencies...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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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.