Corn Argentina’s corn harvest is moving faster now that the soybean harvest is nearing its end. Over the past two weeks, farmers harvested 7 percent of the corn, bringing the total harvest to 36 percent completion. WPI expected better progress than that, but high moisture levels in the crop are limiting harvest progress. Hopefully, the sunny days and frosts that are forecast for this week will help dry the corn and allow harvest to move faster. The latest yield data is coming in better than expected and the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange still forecasts the crop at 46 MMT. The Rosario Grain Exchange is more optimistic with a forecast of 50 MMT while most traders/analysts are somewhere in between the two numbers. Farmer sel...
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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.