President Trump will send his proposed budget to Capitol Hill on Thursday of this week, setting the stage for a potential government shutdown in April.The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed because the Nixon administration wouldn’t spend the monies Congress appropriated. In addition to limiting the presidential powers regarding spending, it created the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the House and Senate Budget Committees to review the president’s budget while also establishing the congressional budget as a joint resolution that the president does not sign as law. Moreover, it mandated a fiscal year for the federal government so that Congress would have time to review, and potentially re-write, the pre...
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.