Fiscal year 2021 ends 30 September. There is much work still to be done including funding the government past 1 October, extending key authorizations that are due to lapse, and potentially dealing with the debt limit. All of this while simultaneously trying to cobble together and gain support for the final budget reconciliation package. The Senate returned today from their August recess, while the House will be back next week. In the meantime, Congressional committees are continuing the process of determining the sections under their jurisdiction to satisfy the instructions in the giant reconciliation package. This morning, the House Agriculture Committee passed, on a party-line vote of 27-24, a bill that provides...
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.