After more than a year of sharply rising prices, softwood lumber is finally starting to show some cracks. Due to circumstances related to COVID, softwood lumber prices increased by 370 percent. Lumber mills expected 2020 to be like any other recession year in which housing starts collapse. By the time it was realized that working from home would lead to an investment boom in housing, the gap in production resulted in shortages and then problems hiring back workers. Lumber production is also stifled by beetles and wildfires. However, softwood prices may now be softening. Futures prices remain elevated well into 2022 but that could be changing. Last week, futures prices fell 14 percent and they shaved off another 4.5 percent today. U.S. fore...
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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.