The attached PDF shows WPI's summary analysis and intrepretation for the latest Cold Storage report, published 22 April 2020 by the USDA. Briefly, the data shows the continued impacts from large hog and cattle slaughter rates while consumer stockpiling, motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring stay-at-home orders, is not clearly reflected in the data...
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.