The UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development are largely being written by NGO’s from rich countries, which is making some of the world’s poorest countries skeptical about their implications. Europe is pushing for UN sustainability goals that largely mimic its own Farm to Fork strategy with its 50 percent cut in nutrients and plant protection chemicals, land set-asides, and organic mandates. Since many of the least food secure countries already use lower volumes of inputs and have yields that are often much smaller than crops in countries with higher input use, they associate the envisioned global restrictive standards as a death warrant. It does not help that many of these countries are former colonies that hav...
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.