Export Sales and Shipments for April 4-10, 2025. Wheat: Net sales of 76,500 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were down 29 percent from the previous week, but up 2 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 483,500 MT were up 43 percent from the previous week and 11 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Mexico (93,700 MT), Japan (84,100 MT), Thailand (68,300 MT), Nigeria (52,300 MT), and Taiwan (46,700 MT). Corn: Net sales of 1,561,900 MT for 2024/2025 were up 99 percent from the previous week and 39 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,880,400 MT--a marketing-year high--were up 11 percent from the previous week and 10 percent from the prior 4-week average...
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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.