The U.S. Senate is having one of its most productive sessions in years and is spending its last week of session before the August break by rolling through several different pieces of legislation. Paying the Piper Free market critic and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz is unhappy that last week's UN International Conference on Financing for Development largely endorsed the status quo – meaning the Bretton Woods institutions and private investors. Stiglitz charges that capitalists practice market manipulation and deception with the result being that they "misallocate capital and create risk." Instead, he envisions a global investment environment that better favors poor countries, which means enabling them to more easily offload...
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.