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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


A Biofuel Boom?
Soybean oil demand is skyrocketing, and bean processors are pulling out their “Go Green” stickers and gearing up for what they believe...
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


Prickly Pear Delight
Cash crops might be getting a new family member in the coming years, and they might want to prep for the big, warm hug from cousin cacti....
Mar 29, 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


Looking Back at 2020 and Thinking...
We teased it on Tuesday, but bananas truly had a bonkers 2020. Rewind: Supplies tightened due to late-2020 hurricanes that hit...
Mar 25, 2021


Port Probz: A Soy-Sugar Standoff
Soy and sugar-filled cargo ships are playing a seaworthy game of Tetris at Latin American ports these days. Historically dry conditions...
Mar 25, 2021


Ag Around the World
Brazil Outbreak backlash. Brazil-based JBS was court-ordered to pay $3.62 million in damages related to inadequate worker protections...
Mar 22, 2021


The Timber Industry is Stumped
Surging demand and next-level lumber prices are leaving lumber producers and home builders in a bit of a conundrum. Lumber supply has...
Mar 22, 2021


The Farm Labor Legislation Hang Up
Late last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a pair of bills aimed at providing legal status for millions of undocumented...
Mar 22, 2021


The Tesla of Tractors
Monarch Tractors just got a supercharge with its recent $20 million Series A round.The international fundraising spree gives the...
Mar 18, 2021


The Seafood Industry Gets Schooled
To say the commercial fish industry has something fishy going on might be an understatement... Seafood fraud on a global scale: Reports...
Mar 18, 2021


Mission to the Moon
Talk to a U.S. row crop farmer today and you’re bound to hear stories about rocketship rides. But they won’t be talking about Elon Musk...
Mar 18, 2021


China Is Trying to Think Postive-ish
China pork producers are playing a never-ending game of Whack-a-Mole with African Swine Fever. Three years into the war against the...
Mar 15, 2021


The New EPA Chief's Phone Right Now...
It’s official. The Environmental Protection Agency has its new top dog. North Carolina’s Michael Regan got the Senate nod last week,...
Mar 15, 2021


Not Your Average Milk-Making Method
Scientists in the Land Down Under may soon be putting your morning glass of milk under a lot of pressure. The rundown: Naturo, an...
Mar 15, 2021


New Kid on the Livestock Block
Farmers Business Network (FBN) is going all-in on animal health and nutrition.With this week's acquisition of Prairie Livestock Supply,...
Mar 11, 2021


Ain't It Peachy
Some fruitful new findings just gave peach producers a lot to look forward to. Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute discovered...
Mar 11, 2021


Not So Neighborly...
The North American block party might be a bit awkward this summer as trade pact tiffs continue between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. ...
Mar 11, 2021
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