CBAM Compromise Until Russia’s Vladimir Putin decided to unite the West against him, the transatlantic policy fractures ran deep and wide. There was agreement on the need for NATO but plenty of disagreement on various other policy parameters. One place where the U.S. and EU seemed headed for conflict was over climate change policy. Unlike the U.S., the EU operates a carbon market designed to punish carbon emissions, whereas the U.S. uses policy requirements and efficiency gains to achieve emissions reductions. Even though the EU seeks to export its production prescriptions on food, the hope was that outcome rather than the process of achieving carbon emissions would prevail. Now Mohammed Chahim, the European Parliamentarian charged w...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
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.