About the time Hurricane Sandy roared ashore near Ocean City, New Jersey, meteorologists decided that it had lost its status as a tropical system. Sandy collided with a strong cold front that apparently turned it into a "post-tropical" storm with some of the characteristics of a nor'easter. We are sure that the storm's technical status made little difference to the millions of people in the eastern part of the U.S. that were affected by its high winds, torrential rains, record storm surges, and for those in the Appalachian Mountains above an elevation of 2,500 feet, a snowstorm of blizzard proportions.By any measurement Sandy was and is a superstorm, and its enormity is still hard to imagine. When it hit land, it had sustained winds of ab...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Key Takeaways: Argentina is on pace for a record corn crop and record exports in the current marketing year, with abundant supplies likely to keep the country highly competitive in global export markets. Argentina’s record exportable surplus is allowing it to offer highly competitive pri...
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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.