April 2023 total red meat and poultry stocks were up from March and were 2.02 percent greater than April 2022 as the industry continues to rebuild stockpiles. The big shock from this month's report, however, was the massive decline in beef supplies that pulled red meat stocks down 4.9 percent from April 2022. Larger pork stocks helped blunt the impact of this on total red meat supplies, however. Total poultry inventories rose 0.53 percent from March, slightly below their normal seasonal increase, and were up 8.9 percent year-over-year. Total beef stocks were down 15.8 percent from March and fell below the five-year average. Pork stocks were up 5.9 percent from March, a significant gain during a month when stocks usually rise just 3.2 percen...
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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.