China's Broad Developments China is spending money on agriculture and trading futures, but self-sufficiency remains an unlikely outcome. China Pork Revolution in Context More than half of the world's swine herd is located in China, and the numbers are growing despite low prices and negative margins. China's Expanding Crop Insurance Sector China is expanding its support for agriculture in many different directions and is now the world's second-largest market for agricultural crop insurance. China is Driving Global Soybean Demand China has evolved from being a net soybean exporter in 1994/95 to the importer of almost two-thirds of the world's soybean exports. Questioning China's Current DDGS Policy China's recent policy action of hal...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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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.