Today's unusual defeat in the U.S. House of a major farm bill proposal reflects many new dynamics, not the least of which is the urbanization of America. It proved that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was correct last year in calculating that a bill could not be passed in the body, and wrong this year for assuming anything had changed. The farm bill, which has historically been fought over on regional grounds rather than political partisanship, has now joined most other areas in the battle of left versus right.Domestic food assistance via the SNAP program was ground zero for the philosophical debate over economics. The right sees food aid growing so fast that it contributes to reduced labor ambition, thus amendments...
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...
Unlike the 2022 fertilizer shock, today’s disruption is rooted less in rerouted trade flows and more in damaged production capacity, raw material constraints and uncertain recovery timelines. That makes this a longer-duration risk for U.S. agricultural producers and retailers who must sec...
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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.