General Comments NOAA's National Climatic Data Center released its report on 2012 which declares that the average U.S. temperature for 2012 was 55.3 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the 20th century average and 1.0 degrees higher than the previous average temperature average set in 1998. The year of 2012 included the warmest spring temperatures ever and the second warmest summer. These extremes were accompanied by historically low precipitation in the Central United States. As we well know, the drought, along with extreme heat, severely damaged crop production. On Friday USDA will reveal the extent of the damage when it provides its final estimates of U.S. corn and soybean production.USDA's last corn production esti...
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...
Key Takeaways: Argentina is on pace for a record corn crop and record exports in the current marketing year, with abundant supplies likely to keep the country highly competitive in global export markets. Argentina’s record exportable surplus is allowing it to offer highly competitive pri...
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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.