Public Health Covid-19 Surges Overseas, China Slow to Return to Normalcy In the past week, new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in China have risen by 2,206 for an average of roughly 315 newly infected people per day. In sharp contrast, outside of the mainland confirmed infections have surged from 3,181 a week ago to 13,980, a 439 percent increase. While total numbers worldwide at 94,250 individuals pale in comparison to seasonal influenza, the death rate of 3.4 percent is more than 2,500 percent higher than the average rate for the flu in the U.S., which has averaged .136 percent since 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control. On the positive side, recoveries now exceed 50 percent of diagnosed cases with a total o...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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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.