European wine makers gathered yesterday to discuss the theme: "What role for international trade & innovation in increasing the EU viticulture’s resilience?" However, a key focus was on rising production costs. There was also concern that investments in innovation would be thwarted by regulations absent of reality such as limits on plant protection products. Portugal, Italy, and France consume the most wine per capita. Portugal, Italy, and Spain have the lowest average prices for wine, relatively low taxes, while Germany, Spain and France apply the lowest tax. Italy and France have seen declining consumption but still rank not far behind the U.S. for total consumption despite having much smaller populations. Sweden, the Netherlan...
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...
From WPI Consulting
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.