The Heritage plan would cut federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years and lead to a balanced budget by 2023. Given the source, surprisingly little of that rather large savings comes from agricultural policy.Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has released its federal budget proposal for FY 2017. It is entitled “Blueprint for Balance: A Federal Budget for 2017.” The plan will be followed up with two more papers: one on a policy vision for presidential-congressional joint action and one on presidential/cabinet-level initiatives. The Heritage plan would cut federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years and lead to a balanced budget by 2023. Given the source, surprisingly little of that rather large savings comes from agri...
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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.