Russian Grain Markets: 19–23 August 2024 Kazakhstan announced they will close the borders with Russia for wheat from now until 31 December. This will put even more pressure on the Russian wheat market and may push them to offer softer offers for GASC tenders where they are the key players. In addition, Russian government sales of intervention stocks, which is so far only 18,900 MT a week, are dumping more milling wheat on the market. Kazakhstan fears grey imports of wheat from Russia will have a negative effect on farmers in Kazakhstan even though both countries are members of the same Customs Union and trade is duty free. Kazakhstan woke up to the fact that during the first half of 2024 Kazakhstan imported 1.3 MMT of wheat wh...
Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
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.