The Closing Bell Wrap-Up is back from vacation, though it was actually a two-week period of focusing on WPI’s product lines and looking to the future to see how we can better serve clients. Keep an eye out for future announcements of new products and reports. Soybeans did their thing today – once again bounding in the opposite direction of the day prior. Wheat futures were unimpressed with Ukraine’s declaration of martial law and the escalation in the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Corn closed fractionally higher while the livestock contracts were mixed. Wall Street is higher with the Dow and S&P500 up slightly and the U.S. dollar flat. Predious metals are lower while crude oil, apparently having run out of bears wil...
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.