Corn Argentina At the beginning of July, Argentina’s corn harvest started moving quickly and since then has covered almost 50 percent of the area. Now one can say that its essentially finished, as the remaining 5 percent yet to be collected is on margin lands and will take time. Delays during May and June meant that more than 3 Mha were harvested from July through mid-August, which is the biggest area harvested during that time in at least five years. Consequently, the arrival of trucks to ports was considerably higher than in previous years. Upriver ports received 151,648 trucks during the period (equating to 4.4 MMT of corn, 27 percent more than 2020) and south ports received 48,400 trucks (1.4 MMT – 31 percent...
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.