The Week after Florence The North Carolina Department of Agriculture released estimates of the damage from Hurricane Florence, indicating 5,500 hogs and pigs were lost (versus 2,800 in 2016 with Hurricane Matthew) along with 3.4 million birds (both turkey and broilers). The state has 831 million broilers and 9 million swine. Estimates on crop losses are not available, but those of lagoons and manure spills total around 25 instances with varying degrees of severity. The footprint of the hurricane covered the state’s top six ag-producing counties and repeated the flooding caused by Hurricane Matthew, meaning some poultry and swine operations were still financially and operationally recovering. The poultry and livestock death toll coul...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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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.