Farm Bill Little to no progress has been made on the farm bill, souring hopes of finishing in early 2024. The fault line remains funding. Typically, over the years of past farm bills, WPI has viewed the concern over lack of budgetary resources as a red herring issue – there is always concern expressed that there is a lack of funding available, but a new farm bill is passed with increased funding for various programs. This year is a bit of an anomaly; the tensions over the budget are real, which led in part to the House removing then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California). Plus, there is the complication of allocating extra spending that is built into the baseline which came from the various stimulus packages, especially the Inflation...
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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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.