Awkward Trade Policy President Trump’s trade war has been highly damaging to U.S. agriculture but the fruition of agreements with Japan, Mexico and Canada and especially China have undermined the criticisms by his Democratic opponents for the presidency. However, it has not prevented their attempts at trying. The latest is an alternative trade policy presented by Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennett from Colorado. However, his proposal is somewhat nonsensical. According to the campaign’s website, “Every trade agreement Bennet signs as president will set aside 20 percent of the benefits, as projected by the International Trade Commission (ITC), to create a Trade Opportunity Fund. These funds will help workers...
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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.