Various participants in Argentina's corn market expected that prices could temporarily heat up when the government recently announced a shutdown of corn licenses for major exporters. However, that did not occur. Significant Decline in Argentine Corn Premiums and Planting Various participants in Argentina's corn market expected that prices could temporarily heat up when the government recently announced a shutdown of corn licenses for major exporters. However, that did not occur. Instead, Argentine exporters seemed determined to secure their share of the global market by competing directly against lower Brazilian and U.S. offers. The sudden, large fall in premiums simply took many individuals by surprise. Consider that there were trades ar...
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.