When all sides in a regulatory matter are upset, it means the agency in charge has either found the only middle ground available or has failed altogether to find one. Ethanol War Lined up on one side are ethanol proponents. They ensured that U.S. EPA received over a quarter of a million comments demanding that the agency not use discretion and instead mandate the full ethanol blend requirements contained in the Energy Act of 2007. EPA has said that its proposed blend rates through 2016 are ambitious, while concurrently in line with market realities. Meanwhile, opponents of ethanol claim to have generated around a quarter of a million public comments in opposition to EPA mandating blending requirements above the so-called blend wall. An ad...
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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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.