Folly of Anti-Big A Washington Insider report states that a study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reveals that the Trump administration ‘aimed its “bailouts” increasingly to the nation's biggest farms.’ It correctly claims that 1 percent of farms received 23 percent of the benefits from trade war and COVID relief packages. Payments were based on financial risk. The group is supposedly watching the Biden Administration to see how it handles this issue of equity. Their charge is consistent with complaints that the rich get the largest share of tax breaks. The rich pay most of the taxes and the largest farms produce most of the food. For many decades, the stated goal of American farm policy has been to...
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.