Russian Grain Markets: 17-23 April 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,902 MT of grain for exchange trading on 17 April and 64,883 MT of grain on 23 April.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 2.937 MMT of grains for total amount of RUR 24.555 billion. Trading Session Schedule Due to the fact that the next two weeks' trading sessions will coincide with national holidays, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture decided to move the 30 April and 1 May trading session to 29 April and cancelled trading on 7-8 May. Planting Updates As of 19 April, Russian farmers planted spring crops on 3.7 million hectares (7.3 percent of the target), which is up 1.9 mi...
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...
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...
From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.