Many of the nation’s agricultural bankers were in Omaha this week for their annual conference. The media was also there interviewing anyone willing to talk about the damage to farm income caused by the various trade wars. As it should, China and the soybean problem garnered the most attention. Several farm marketing advisory services were also there trying to convince the bankers they can offer marketing support to clients. One interesting note among this morning’s news stories about bankers and net farm income was a report that 85 percent of farm bankers believe farmers will have to sell some medium to long-term assets to improve cash flow over the next several years. What’s notable is that this hasn’t already star...
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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.