Lethal Chinese Avian Flu Baffles Experts A team of flu experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) were in China this week to seek answers on how to deal with the dangerous H7N9 avian flu. The disease thus far has infected 108 people and killed 22 of them. The WHO experts said that in terms of fatality rates, it is one of the most lethal flu viruses that has ever been identified. To date, there is little evidence it is being spread among humans; otherwise, the number of people infected would be much greater. Yet, the number of cases detected in two months is greater than the number of people in China that were infected in China with the H5N1 avian flu in a decade. Most of the global deaths from H5N1 occurred out of China.One of the...
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...
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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.