SPREADS May crush trades to 67c/bu, while oilshare is 34.65%. July/Dec corn trades from 74 3/4c inverse to 78c, while May/July trades down to 11 1/2c from 12 1/2c. May/July wheat trades from 11c down to 8 3/4c. July/Nov bean inverses congests from 1.76 1/4c to 1.80 1/4c, while March/May trades from 1 1/4c to 3/4c inverse. July/Dec meal trades from $50.40 inverse down to $49.30. July wheat/corn trades from 98 1/4c to 98c. PALM OIL Closed for holiday. India's palm oil imports jumped 31% in Jan from a year earlier as lower import taxes prompted refiners to increase purchases of the tropical oil, while soyoil and sunflower oil imports fell, as reported by a trade group. NEWS Stocks are down 30 pts...
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.