Since agricultural commodities are fungible and tradeable, no region of the world is immune to global price pressures. However, the impact of food price changes has evolved over time. In the early aughts, food price inflation had a greater impact on Europe and North America, and especially on Oceania. Africa and Latin America were the least impacted regions. The FAO’s food price index converged for all global regions in 2015 and then splintered in slightly different directions. Swing forward to the latest five-year period and Africa and Latin America have been more impacted by increases in the food price index than any other region, with Asia a distant third. North America has been the least impact, though even it has confronted shar...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
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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.