An Australian court has issued a decision regarding an organic farmer's charge against a neighboring GMO producer's cultivation practices. GMO Reorder An Australian court has decided that a GMO farmer is not obligated to alter normal cultivation practices just because the farmer next door is putting land to an abnormally sensitive use such as organic production. The Australian Court of Appeal ruled that the organic farmer was essentially seeking to enlarge his own rights while imposing limits on neighboring farmers. Miscellaneous Policy Developments The U.S. Department of Commerce determined that high countervailing and antidumping duties should be placed on sugar imports from Mexico. However, the U.S. International Trade Commissi...
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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.