President Obama has promised to take up immigration reform during this session of Congress, and post-election -- especially after all the slicing and dicing of demographic information about minority voting patterns -- Congress seems more willing to address the issue, if for no other reason than identity politics. Today leaders from both parties will unveil a framework agreement of a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, including a pathway to citizenship for more than 11 million illegal immigrants.However, lost in the national attention on immigration reform is the impact it has on agriculture. Currently, agricultural workers are granted status -- especially during times of seasonal need -- under the U.S. Department o...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Unlike the 2022 fertilizer shock, today’s disruption is rooted less in rerouted trade flows and more in damaged production capacity, raw material constraints and uncertain recovery timelines. That makes this a longer-duration risk for U.S. agricultural producers and retailers who must sec...
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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.