The president of the Russian Grain Union said Russia's current financial problems may negatively impact the planting of grains. Ukraine has planted early spring grains and leguminous crops on 90 percent of its target area as of 7 April 2014. Russian Grain Markets Planting Update Russian farmers planted spring grain crops on 1.9 million hectares (3.6 percent of the target) as of 8 April 2014. Market Trends: 31 March–4 April 2014 During the week in review, grain market prices continued to increase. GEOGRAPHICALLY: 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices kept rising in the South and Ural (+$6/MT), Central (+$6.50/MT), Volga Valley (+$4/MT), Black Soil (+$2.50/MT) and Siberia (+$9.40/MT).4th grade soft milling wheat prices continued to incre...
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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.