General Comments Today was one of the quietest and more boring days for anyone watching the markets in a long time. Soybeans were weak all night and throughout today. Corn and wheat futures were steady to higher until late morning when they took a turn for the worse and traded 3-4 lower. There were no export sales announcements from USDA today. Financial markets were mixed following news that the U.S. third quarter GDP grew at a slightly better-than-expected 2 percent. Most of that growth was attributed to more government spending. The U.S. election is quickly approaching and that could be pushing some nervous money to the sidelines. Talk of 2013 fund rebalancing that would reduce length in soybeans and corn and increase length in wheat...
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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...
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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.