Regional News Drought in Romania has affected over 2 Mha of wheat, corn, rapeseed, and sunflower seed with about 40 percent of the crops having been destroyed. This is the fourth year of the past five in which drought has caused significant damage to Romania’s crops. Tunisia purchased 75 KMT of soft wheat – most likely from Black Sea origin – at prices between $243-246/MT C&F for September-October delivery. Milling Wheat Global wheat markets are short on bullish news and enthusiasm, which has led to widespread price declines over the past two weeks. The EU market has been the downside leader with pressure coming from the strong euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate. Additionally, EU wheat exports r...
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.
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...
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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...