Milling Wheat The Black Sea wheat market was quiet last week partly because of the holidays (1 May and Orthodox Easter) but also because of the very slow demand. Consumers/importers were doing their best to avoid old crop wheat purchases because of the wide price inverse with the new crop. Additionally, consumers preferred to wait before buying the new crop, as the production prospects in the EU and Eastern Europe look very positive for the time being. Russian and Ukrainian certainly will not produce record crops this year, but if the weather remains favorable until the harvest, the combined export surplus could be 10-15 MMT higher than in 2012/13. April was drier than normal in Ukraine and southern Russia, and the market will follow the...
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...
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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.