China's Vice President Xi Jinping will visit Washington next week, 14-15 February, to give an address on Sino-American relations. Strong friendships are developed normally when each party attempts to understand and appreciate another's perspective. On the way to Washington, Vice President Xi will stop in Iowa to visit friends whom he met in 1985, when he was a young Communist Party leader from the Hebei agricultural region in northern China. Such loyalty to friends says a lot about the man who is expected to become China's next president in October.Many changes have occurred since Vice President Xi's first visit to the United States. By the mid-1980s, China was beginning to accept the tenants of capitalism. China's economy was still fragi...
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.