Policymaking is Hard Washington has long had troubles agreeing on major legislation and now the EU is hitting hurdles. Te European Parliament first rejected proposed revisions to the carbon trading scheme, and now it has voted against changes to the Digital Services Act. If a single nation like the U.S. or a grouping of 27 relatively homogenous nations in Europe cannot readily reach agreement, no one should have high expectations for 164 countries meeting next week at the WTO’s 12th ministerial. Usually, it takes a crisis to forge change. The Doha round was successfully launched (though not concluded) in response to 9/11 but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not motivating trade ministers. In fact, the current food security...
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.