Senate Would Reject Obama President Biden has withdrawn his nominee to become the Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Nelson Cunningham. Cunningham has stellar credentials, including working for Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. His nomination is being vetoed by Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) who is in a tough reelection fight. Brown says he could never allow confirmation for someone that supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership. That basically excludes anyone that worked for former President Barack Obama, and Obama himself. For that matter, Biden himself would be rejected by Brown since as Vice President he was supportive of TPP. Europe Lives on Crisps The EU has fined U.S. confectionary maker Mondelez €337.5 million for enga...
The Trump Administration is planning a suspension of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) on beef from all exporters for 200 days as a means to address high beef prices in the U.S. U.S. cattle and beef prices have increased based on exceptionally strong consumer demand, the smallest U.S. cattle herd in 75...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.