THE OPEN November beans: 3 higher December meal: 3.90 higher December soyoil: 52 lower December corn: 6 higher December wheat: 10 1/2 higher The markets opened as called but prices turned lower for beans which followed a sharply lower soyoil market. Macros were at work today, with the collapse in crude oil prices weighing on oilshare and soyoil, impacting beans to trade lower. Corn trade was two-sided, but wheat prices continued to be well supported by bullish fundamentals and technicals. At 10:00, export inspections were released as follows: wheat: 490,6267 mt vs. 427,819 mt week ago (vs. an expected 275,00 mt to 550,000 mt) corn: 1,000,512 mt vs. 1,002...
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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.