Picking a Venue There are real risks to the American economy from Mexico’s ban on GM corn for food and glyphosate. While most corn sold to Mexico is for animal feed and theoretically exempt, a small percentage of field corn goes into making cereal, corn starch, corn oil, and corn syrup that are used in food. The whole matter could devolve into a worse fiasco for the $1.1 trillion U.S. agrifood industry than the StarLink recall in 2000. StarLink had been approved for feed but not food use but was subsequently found in food. The only real choice for challenging the prohibitions by the Biden Administration is which venue to use. On the one-hand, the USMCA is more specific about procedures on GMO’s and science-based risk assessment...
What You Need to Know Today: President Trump claimed the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over, as both sides accused one another of violating the terms of the agreement. Commercial vessels are increasingly steering clear of the Strait of Hormuz as security risks escalate following Iran...
Key Takeaways: The CME Group is launching new 90 percent Lean Beef and 50 percent Lean Beef futures and options contracts in July. There are five key factors that must be present in physical markets and futures contract specifications for futures contracts to become successful. The two l...
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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.