Farm Policy CAP: EU Commission proposals to impose payment limitations on direct payments is running into resistance as some suggest that farmers will merely divide up their holdings to avoid the cap. Meanwhile, the proposal for providing lump sum payments to smallholders is deemed too complex. A fund to encourage young farmers into the business looks like politicians in search of a problem that doesn't exist. Farmers are older, but farms are not being abandoned due to a lack of farmers.Farm Bill: Tina Saitone and Richard Sexton of the University of California, Davis look at the U.S. market structure and find that while it is concentrated, there is no evidence of anticompetitive distortions. While local retail markets are more concentrat...
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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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.