Russian Grain Markets: 19-23 September 2022 The Russian Ministry of Agriculture reported that as of 22 September wheat production was 99.9 MMT of bunker weight wheat versus 72.9 MMT a year ago. The average wheat yield increased from 2.8 MT/ha to 3.6 MT/ha. Harvesting has been completed on 27.4 Mha which is 93.1 percent of all crops. Barley production totaled 25.6 MMT versus 17.9 MMT a year ago, this from 7.6 Mha or 95.2 percent of the crop. Corn harvest has just started. Winter crops have been planted over 8.592 Mha versus 10.082 Mha last year at this time. According to the Russian Grain Union Vice President Alexander Korbut, oilseeds acreage jumped by 3.8 Mha during the past six years while other crops, especially potatoes and fo...
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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.