The election of Emmanuel Macron to the French presidency was viewed as a vote of support for broader Europe, but that doesn’t mean a lack of policy clashes ahead. Sweet Battle Sensing that bilateral negotiations with Mexico over sugar imports were not reaching a resolution, the Trump administration imposed a 5 June deadline for an agreement before reverting to previously-established antidumping and countervailing duties. However, Mexico has responded by announcing that it will pursue antidumping duties on imports of American high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Sugar and HFCS have been sparring partners domestically and across the border with Mexico. The U.S. sugar lobby is powerful, but it has a much smaller political base than corn growers...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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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.