General Comments Among topics for the market's consideration, weather is constantly at the forefront. Agricultural production in various important regions around the world has been beset by weather extremes during the last several years in ways that have climatologists and environmentalists blaming global warming. It may seem as though the incidence of crop production problems resulting from adverse weather has been on the rise, but how precisely true this may be is a question. The situation may be magnified by the ability to instantaneously access detailed worldwide weather data. And of course, publicity surrounding weather-related crop production problems grows whenever the sufficiency of crop supplies is an issue, and this alone has f...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
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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.