Logistics Truck movements have normalized since the first few weeks of the quarantine when uncertainty and divergent local regulations slowed the arrival of trucks to ports. With harvest now moving at high speed for soybeans and corn, the flow of truck arrivals at ports is high. The Argentine government has extended the quarantine until at least 26 April, but agriculture and food businesses are still on the list of exempted entities. The Parana River is at its lowest levels in the last 30 years (see photos below), which is creating problems for vessel owners who are ready to load grains. Pilots need to be more prudent and cautious, so movement in the river is much slower as pilots try to avoid groundings. With the ...
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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.