Back in October, the initial, or advanced, Q3 GDP report showed the U.S. economy grew 4.9 percent; and on 29 November the GDP estimate was revised up to 5.2 percent, which made Q3 the fastest growing GDP since 2021. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) regularly calculates and reports GDP in a series; the advanced GDP – the initial report that garners all the news headlines – about 30 days after the quarter ends, then a second revision about 60 days later and a third revision roughly 90 days after that. The third revision for the Q3 2023 GDP report will be released on 21 December. Each report and revision uses increasingly more comprehensive and improved data to fine tune the initial estimates. The advanced estima...
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.