Corn Argentina Argentina’s weather has been ideal for harvesting but farmers are still focused on soybeans. This week’s corn harvest progress was just 3.2 percent, compared to more than 20 percent for soybeans. With last week’s progress, farmers have harvested 23 percent of the corn area, down 15 percent from last year’s progress. Weather forecasts call for nearly ideal conditions in the coming week, which should allow another week of strong progress harvesting soybeans. That will bring Argentine farmers closer to resuming the corn harvest. FAS prices are following the bullishness of global markets. Prices are climbing in step with the CBOT and exporters are fighting for corn for all...
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.