India is the world’s ninth largest agricultural exporter. The Biden Administration wants to negotiate with India on agricultural trade access, but New Delhi has a good thing going. Its agricultural trade surplus with the world has been growing, and more than a third of the reason is trade with the U.S. In 2022, the U.S. sold India around $2.5 billion in agricultural products. Mostly non-competing tree nuts ($1.022 billion), cotton ($520 million) that gets reimported as value added textiles, ethanol ($301 million) and vegetable oil (290 million). India sold the U.S. $6.9 billion in agricultural goods, dominated by spices, essential oils, vegetable oil, rice, tea, and processed fruits and vegetables. ...
Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, published in 1770, is of a timeless quality. It is a 425-line lament for a disappearing rural world, where prosperous villages give way to larger estates, fewer farmers, and emigration. One passage even follows those leaving for the new colony of Georgia...
The industry has spent two years bracing for GLP-1 medications to hollow out demand, but the data so far tells a more interesting story. Roughly one in eight adults currently uses a GLP-1, and an additional 29 percent of non-users say they would consider it if it became more accessible and cost...
Just when it seemed the restaurant industry had finally moved beyond the pandemic disruption, the arithmetic of the American food dollar caught up with it. The National Restaurant Association projects that total restaurant and foodservice sales will reach a record $1.55 trillion in 2026, but on...
Key Takeaways: U.S. cow-calf producers are facing another year of record-breaking revenues and net returns for 2026, though rising cost pressures and pullbacks in cattle prices increase risks. Drought remains a key concern for much of the cow-calf industry this year, with rising feed cos...
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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.