The CBOT ended the week on a quiet note with most of the volume in grains related to rolling September positions forward ahead of first notice day on Tuesday and Friday’s September options expiry. Fed Chairman Powell’s Jackson Hole comments sent the dollar lower, which supported some CBOT trade. Funds were net sellers for the day, liquidating some 7,000 contracts of corn, 14,000 contracts of soybeans, and 6,000 wheat contracts. The market is watching the coming week’s weather carefully, which will include hurricane-driven rains for the Delta and Ohio River Valley while another storm system pushes across the northern Plains and Corn Belt. Only the southern Plains, PNW, and California remain dry this week. Corn and so...
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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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.