The U.S. farm economy didn’t find any relief on the immediate horizon in today’s USDA acreage and quarterly stocks estimates (see today’s separate analysis for details), and corn got hammered as soon as they were released. More optimistic talk about a trade deal with China didn’t provide much help for the grain markets. However, it did bolster U.S. equity markets, which were up 0.5-0.6 percent through most of today’s trading session. Crude oil and the U.S. dollar were also both higher. Corn FUTURES Corn fundamentals have been teetering on the edge of turning at least slightly bullish, but today’s big 1 March quarterly stocks number coupled with more acres than the trade expected delivered a bo...
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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.