Russian Grain Markets: 27 – 31 March 2023 International traders, after one full year of war in Ukraine, have finally made up their minds to leave Russia as the business environment in the country is probably one of the most unpredictable in the world. Bunge was one of the first large international grain trading companies to leave and now Cargill, Viterra, ADM, and Luis Dreyfus have announced that they will suspend grain export trading activities during the upcoming season. During the past decade, some of these companies invested not only in grain storage facilities but also in grain terminals in the ports as well as the crushing industry. Multinationals are selling their assets to Russian businesses one after another as...
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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.