As noted in the analysis on recession impacts on grain demand, the Great Recession is an imperfect proxy for predicting the impacts on the current global economic downturn. It may be more like the shock events of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, or the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, but those are narrower impacting events. Before markets became as sophisticated, most recessions were the result of supply/demand imbalances. A burst of outsized capital investment followed by a productivity led decline in labor demand stoked the 2001 recession. It turns out that this time really is different. None of those prior events involved the labor shortages and reworked processes currently being experienced in the meat packing industry. Nonetheles...
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.