The FY 2020 budget process in Congress has begun. Under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Section 301(d)), each of the congressional authorizing committees is to send a “views and estimates” letter to its respective chamber’s budget committee. On Thursday of last week, the House Agriculture Committee debated, approved and filed its letter accordingly. The message of that letter to House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky) could be distilled down to one request: fully fund the 2018 Farm Bill. The letter states: - “The Committee’s budget priorities are aligned with the full implementation of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.” - “The Committee took our duty to be fis...
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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.