Corn and wheat found continued pressure from overnight analysis of the August WASDE, while the soy complex managed to find significant support for the day. The market is still debating the accuracy of USDA’s corn estimates, but fund position liquidation is forcing it to adopt those figures for now. The dumpster fire that is the cattle markets continues to rage out of control (is it too soon to use that metaphor?) with both feeder cattle and live cattle futures closing limit down on their expanded daily trading limits. Outside markets were mostly higher this morning after the Trump administration announced its plans to impose tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods as of 1 September would be delayed on some products until 15 December...
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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.