SPREADS May crush trades to 1.03c/bu while oilshare trades to .3532%. Spreads are a touch wider with July/Dec corn trading out to 1 3/4c from 1 1/4c. March/May corn narrows into 4 1/4c from 5 1/2c. March wheat/corn trades down to 1.89c from 1.92 1/2c, and values that were over 2.00c yesterday. July/Nov beans trade out to 9c from 8c. March/May wheat trades settles at a 1c inverse with a 1 1/2c to 1/4c range. PALM OIL April down 50 ringgits with cash lower, down $5.00 to $765.00/mt. NEWS The Dow is down 71 pts. as energies continue to get hit, trading down to $55.21/barrel. Gold prices are down $3.10 to 1552/oz. The US dollar is weaker down to 97.42.  ...
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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.