During his political career, Maggi made waves by supporting President Lula’s re-election because of the latter's commitment to growing the soybean industry and its export infrastructure. Most of the infrastructure improvement was targeted to Maggi’s state of Matto Grosso.Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff was suspended for 180 days after the lower chamber of Congress there voted to impeach her and the Senate followed suit on 12 May by a vote of 55-22. At the end of that period, there will be a trial that could last up to 20 days and ends with the Senate rendering a verdict on whether she broke federal budgetary laws. Upon the suspension, Vice President Michel Temer assumed office and has already appointed a new cabinet that signals a sharp t...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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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.