Stale Result India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal has called for a “fresh package” trade agreement with the U.S. that is more ambitious than the effort with the Trump Administration. He denigrated the Trump effort as “nitpicking on every small issue.” He reportedly went on to say, “We have to sort out issues that are much more relevant to the relationship and leave the small issues aside.” Among the small, nitpicking issues that USTR Lighthizer was demanding was improved market access for U.S. agriculture. Now that Minister Goyal has made clear that improved market access for America’s farmers is not in the cards, it is also unlikely that anything President Biden does with I...
What You Need to Know Today: The U.S. and Iran resumed missile strikes after a brief pause in fighting, raising concerns that the five-month conflict could expand across the Middle East. Jordan intercepted Iranian missiles, Kuwait reported a fatal strike, and drone attacks damaged two natural...
The Senate Agriculture Committee will take up the farm bill next week, and a number of amendments targeting the meat industry are expected to be offered. Two of the most potentially damaging are the Schumer amendment, based on his bill, the Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act, and mandatory co...
Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, published in 1770, is of a timeless quality. It is a 425-line lament for a disappearing rural world, where prosperous villages give way to larger estates, fewer farmers, and emigration. One passage even follows those leaving for the new colony of Georgia...
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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.