Decarbonization Plans The incoming Biden Administration promises aggressive action to address climate change, which has the rapt attention of U.S. agriculture. On the one hand, the sector is expecting more carrots (subsidies) to employ conservation practices such as utilizing cover crops and expanding no-till. There is interest in receiving compensation for its role in sinking carbon, but a lot of uncertainty over where such a policy will lead. Will receipts for sinking carbon be offset by penalties for emitting it via fertilizer, fuel, and other inputs implicit with intensive agriculture? Meanwhile, trade policy experts are attentive to any plans for using trade to achieve climate goals. The EU’s “Fit for 55&rdquo...
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.