Corn Argentina The pace of corn harvesting improved last week and with a 3.8 percent weekly progress, the total harvested area reached 23.2 percent of the estimated area. Yields remain highly heterogeneous yields but average 6.59 MT/ha. The soybean harvest continues to attract farmers’ attention (16 percent weekly progress) and until they are finished with that crop, they will not move to full corn harvest. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange maintained its crop estimate at 49 MMT, while the Rosario Grain Exchange raised it from 47.7 to 49.2 MMT, reporting an increase in planted area that was detected late. In both cases, the estimates are in line with what the market was predicting. As for the markets, the FAS closely fol...
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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.