The corn futures market may not have been a tower of strength today, but the December contract did close up 2 cents and within a half-cent of the day’s high. However, corn prices again traded in what has become their usual 4-cent range. General Comments Considerable attention is being paid to Sunday’s runoff election in Argentina between Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macri. The most recent polls show Macri, considered a longshot underdog several months ago, holding a lead over Scioli. He is perceived to be more pro-business, although both have promised to devalue the peso, ease export licenses and reduce the export taxes on grains, soybeans and soy products. Argentine farmers have been hoarding soybeans as a hedge against inflation and deval...
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...
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.