India's Potential Key to Growth: Overseas Indians India is currently hosting its 10th summit for non-resident Indians and will honor some of the leading Indians who have made a mark in the world. More than 2,000 overseas Indians are in attendance. At the gathering, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh spoke about the turbulent global economy and how it has affected India. Based on current assumptions, the current financial year ending 31 March 2012 was the most traumatic year for the country. Growth during the first half of FY 2011/12 slipped to 7.3 percent against 8.6 percent in the last period of FY 2010/11; and, contrary to earlier projections in the 7.5-7.7 percent range, growth is expected to be only 7 percent (compared to 8.5 percent...
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.