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Laser Robot FOMO
With the annihilation power straight out of Star Wars, Seattle-based Carbon Robotics is on a roll with the latest revamp of their...
Apr 27, 2021


The Lemon, Lime, and Mango Tango
Lemons, limes, and mangos agree that 2020 was a lemon of a year - a little sweet, a little sour. The shutdown of foodservice...
Apr 26, 2021


Wheat's Power Move
Brazil meatpackers aren’t messing around. High corn prices have big-time meat players, like JBS and BRF, influencing a pivot to wheat...
Apr 26, 2021


Searching for that herbicide supply like:
The pandemic might be winding down, but its effects on the ag supply chain are still ramping up. Herbicides and fungicides are the...
Apr 26, 2021


Testy Train Track Bidding War
If you’re looking for a good deal on a cross-continent railroad, well… let’s just say it’s not a buyer’s market. Just weeks ago,...
Apr 23, 2021


Farm Equipment Makers Can't Keep Up
Farm equipment makers have whiplash trying to scale production back up from pandemic cuts and supply chain disruptions to meet seasonably...
Apr 23, 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


Cotton's Comeback
Cotton is on the up and up. Higher cotton exports and lower supply are driving the price of cotton up. As a result, the USDA projected...
Apr 16, 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


Sorghum Sees $$$ in Pet Food
Sorghum has a pet-filled pandemic to thank for its dynamite 2020. And the companion animal data doesn’t lie… The U.S. pet industry...
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


Nothing Turtle-Like For This Growth...
Tortuga AgTech is ramping up to build hundreds of automated harvest robots, and the company has producers pickin’ and investors grinnin’....
Apr 13, 2021


Running the Numbers
Honey, I shrunk the ...corn pile. Last Friday’s WASDE report for the month of April projected U.S. corn supplies or carryover to be...
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


There's No Business Like Drone Business
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…another drone company. Guardian Agriculture , a Boston-based startup, just deposited a batch of seed...
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


Cashing In On Cover Crops
Cover crops are ready for their time to shine, and one startup is doing its best job to make that a reality. At the intersection of...
Apr 5, 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
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