THE OPEN March beans: 8 higher March meal: 1.90 higher March soyoil: 40 higher March corn: 1 3/4 higher March wheat: 8 higher The markets opened higher as more shorts covered into a Reuters story that reported that China's Liu He would sign the Phase One trade deal in the US soon. The news hitting the wires was that Liu would bring a trade delegation to Washington this Saturday. The South China Morning Post reported the story, which created new highs and triggered buy-stops. Later in the session the stock market and crude oil saw a round of profit-taking that seemed to set-off caution on both sides. At 10:00 export inspections were released as follows: Beans: 911,482 mt vs...
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.