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Cattle Producers and Congress Prod For Answers
Cattle groups weren’t messing around last week in Phoenix when they pulled out the sticky notes and started inking a serious industry...
May 21, 2021


When 'Meat' Is Really Meat
The discussion over alternative meat marketing is sizzling as Texas lawmakers ruminate on a bill that limits the meaning of meat. ...
May 17, 2021


Let's Talk About Bridges and Barges...
Last Friday, we failed to note one bridge-sized reason why commodity prices nosedived other than a semi-wonky WASDE report. In case you...
May 17, 2021


Ag Keeps Eye on Fuel Situation
After a near-week-long hiatus, the Colonial Pipeline is back up and running. But with fuel shortage effects expected to last several more...
May 13, 2021


An All Too Familiar Headline: Drought Update
Megadrought and megafire potential are leading to some mega concerning news. How bad is mega bad? In the West, 83% of the region is...
May 11, 2021


Totally Buggin'
Oxitec, a British biotech company, is keeping an eye on potential agriculture applications as it helps mitigate mosquito-borne diseases...
May 7, 2021


ADM Is On A Roll
We are in the midst of the first earnings season of the year, and if you’re ADM, things are looking mighty fine. ADM just dropped...
Apr 29, 2021


Vilsack: We Aren't the Meat Police
President Biden’s recent proposal to cut 50-52% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 got people talking...a lot. And not necessarily for...
Apr 29, 2021


U.S. Ag Watching TPP Trade Going Down...
While eleven countries are swapping goodies via the Comprehensive and Progress Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), several...
Apr 23, 2021


Farm Lending in Slo-Mo Mode
Talk to just about anyone connected to the ag industry today and you will see their face light up when the conversation inevitably turns...
Apr 20, 2021


Milk's Chill Factor
Milk’s got more going for it than just a mustache these days. The backstory: With 67% of adults concerned about their stress and...
Apr 20, 2021


The French Ice Queen – Mother Nature
Oh, snap. Cold snap, that is. We noted last week that farmers in France were feeling the latest temperature drops in their bones and...
Apr 16, 2021


The India Ag Scene
The past year has been tough for Indian farmers, and the hits just keep coming. New farm laws. Protests. The pandemic. Low rice exports....
Apr 13, 2021


Blueberry Tinkering
The U.S. blueberry industry is booming. USDA figures from 2019 pegged total U.S. harvested acres up 15% from 2018, with total...
Apr 9, 2021


A Taxing Situation...
Yeah, the above is farmers everywhere reading deeper into proposed tax changes coming out of D.C over the past few weeks. Senate...
Apr 9, 2021


Commodity Execs To Their Sugar Businesses:
Cargill is taking its turn with one of the latest trends. And thankfully, it’s not anything like a corporate TikTok account. The...
Apr 5, 2021


Mo' Money, Mo' Research
Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you a stronger agricultural system, and that’s basically the same thing. Two studies, one by ...
Apr 1, 2021


Farm Economists This Week:
Wednesday’s release of the USDA’s Prospective Plantings report left many in the ag industry with a furrowed brow. Backstory Each March,...
Apr 1, 2021


Amfora Plans to Pump Up Protein
With a cool $6 million injection from Spruce Capital Partners and Leaps by Bayer, Amfora is inching closer to its goal of producing...
Mar 29, 2021


Prop 12 Puts Pork Production in Peril
Consumers continue to push for more oversight into animal welfare and sustainability practices, and California’s Proposition 12 (formally...
Mar 25, 2021
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