With all the talk about new taxes and their potential role in deficit reduction, Senator Bruce Vitter (R-Louisiana) and Representative Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) are making a preemptive strike on one area of taxation that gained some attention a few years ago: the carbon tax. The carbon tax was the concept behind cap and trade that gained some support from conservatives because it offset other taxes.For example, former Representative Bob Inglis (R-South Carolina) now runs George Mason University's Energy and Enterprise Initiative, a well-known conservative research operation, and is proposing to "lift taxes off of income and onto pollution." Greg Mankiw and Glenn Hubbard, two former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisors under President...
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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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.