The British famously coined the phrase “Keep Calm and Carry On” in WWII and are renown for displaying fortitude and stoicism in the face of adversity, but they are fooling themselves in concurrent triangle of Brexit negotiations with Brussels and trade negotiations with Washington. The two elephants are fighting with one another and for each, pairing up with the UK is small beer in their larger game. Today, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson held a videoconference with EU officials at the same time U.S. trade negotiators talked to their British counterparts. Brussels is keen to kick Brexit down the road, waiting until Donald Trump is hopefully booted in November and the British people get worn down by fear of becoming an eco...
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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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.