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Weird Winter Weather Set To Send Wheat Prices Back Higher
MYRONIVKA, UKRAINE – JULY 29: A stork flies above a wheat field as a combine harvester of TVK Seed … [+] agricultural company harvests wheat on July 29, 2022 not far from Myronivka, Ukrain...
A “Net Zero World” Starts With Regenerative Agriculture
Farming in a “Net Zero World” murata manufacturing co. The new year is off to a fast start, but it appears that many companies have taken a step back from basing decisions solely on the bo...
3 Agriculture Dividend Stocks With Long-Term Growth Potential
The agricultural sector is a compelling place to invest right now for several reasons. First, it is a very defensive sector given that our need to eat does not change with macroeconomic or geopolitica...
Will $2 billion merger of Cresco and Columbia Care reach the finish line? Analysts see ‘market doubt’ for cannabis deal.
Cresco Labs Inc. and Columbia Care Inc. investors have signaled that a major merger in the cannabis space may be struggling to reach the finish line, analysts said. In March 2022, Cresco Labs CRLBF, +...
Three Youth-Led African Agritech Businesses Receive Investment To Help Scale Up African Agriculture
Three African youth-led Agritech businesses— Kenya’s DigiCow, Botswana’s Brastorne Enterprises and Nigeria’s ThriveAgric— will receive mentorship and $1.5 million in grants to help them to aggressivel...
Curaleaf cutting 10% of staff as it exits three U.S. states
This story has been updated to provide correct figures for the number of states Curaleaf operates in; also the number of total employees at the company. Curaleaf said Thursday it has reduced its staff...
Food fraud secretly infiltrates America. Here’s how you can avoid it
The food in your kitchen cabinets may not be what it seems. “I guarantee you any time a product can be passed off as something more expensive, it will be. It’s that simple,” Larry Ol...
Why inflation hit these 10 items hardest in 2022
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Inflation popped in 2022 to a level unseen in four decades. But prices ballooned more rapidly for certain items than others, largely concentrated among foo...
Lemons, peaches and TCM bought as protection from virus
Farmers sort and package lemons at a workshop on November 24, 2020 in Neijiang, Sichuan Province of China. Huang Zhenghua | Visual China Group | Getty Images Covid cases in China saw a spike following...
Facing climate change, Asia farmers turn to risky microfinance loans
The “microfinance” industry — long touted as a way to help poor, rural communities in developing countries — is pushing tens of thousands of farming families into debt traps as they attemp...
Avocado prices are plunging, sending Mission Produce stock toward its worst day ever
Mission Produce Inc. shares headed for their worst day yet on Friday, following an earnings report that showed the effects of rapidly declining avocado prices. Mission Produce AVO, -15.20% reported a ...
Bolthouse Farms Adopts Less Restrictive NDA Policy To Protect Employees
BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA – MAY 26 : Massive carrot harvesters gather carrots from the ground and into … [+] waiting truck for drive to Bolthouse Farms processing facility, May 26, 2004 in B...
Ag Retailers Meet During A Time Of Extraordinary Change
The theme of the 2022 Agricultural Retailers Association meeting in San Diego Photo by author The Agricultural Retailers Association held its annual meeting in San Diego from November 29 to December 1...
How the U.S. became a global corn superpower
The United States has just about 90 million planted acres of corn, and there’s a reason people refer to the crop as yellow gold. In 2021, U.S. corn was worth over $86 billion, according to calcu...
What If They Planted A Garden And Nothing Grew?
People who work the land will tell you winter is a fairly peaceful time on a farm. The summer harvest is in and preparations for new plantings are relatively quiet until the new year. Farm in a rural ...
What’s next for lumber as it looks to be 2022’s worst-performing commodity
Lumber has the dubious honor of being among the biggest commodity price decliners this year, and the outlook for the market doesn’t look to improve anytime soon. Random-length lumber for January deliv...
How drought cost America’s cotton industry billions
Cotton farmers in Texas, where about 40% of the U.S. crop is produced, are facing a severe drought that is costing the industry billions. A lack of rain and extreme heat is forcing growers in the stat...
Sustainable Agriculture Summit Held In Arizona Coincides With Need To Feed Global Population Reaching 8 Billion
A 20 mw solar farm in Gillespie Arizona, Maricopa County south of Phoenix. Farming is also “solar … [+] powered” but this region is an example of increasing water limitation while in...
How Agriculture Is Returning To Its Roots
Lee Jones is a farmer in Huron, Ohio. He’s also a devotee of John Steinbeck, whose depression-era masterpiece “Grapes of Wrath” sang to him of soils robbed of value and people robbed of homes and live...
The Inside Story Of The Battle Against Climate Change Denial By Peter Stott — Review
The shocking behind-the-scenes story of climate deniers’ fight to discredit climate change science over the past twenty-five years, told by one of the world’s foremost climate scientists who lived it ...
The 30 Best Food And Sustainability Gifts Of 2022
When I sat down to interview Chef José Andrés on Thursday at the recently opened New York City location of his restaurant, Zaytinya, I realized I was sitting with arguably one of the most charitable p...
Best Stocks In Farm Equipment, Agriculture Commodities Gain As Food Insecurity Rises
Is the U.S. concerned about food security as we face a potential recession and agricultural equipment and supplies run short? One would think so, based on the way IBD 50 best stocks have been building...
It’s Time To Talk Turkey, La Niña Is Coming Back, And How The Ukraine War Keeps Aggravating Global Food Shortages
I hate to rev up anxiety, but it’s time to start figuring out what you’re sourcing for Thanksgiving. These next few weeks are going to fly by. Given sky-high inflation, drought pushing up prices, and ...
One company could determine if U.S. corporate profits rise to a record next year
As Wall Street looks toward 2023, earnings growth for the companies that make up the S&P 500 index could hinge on just one of them: Amazon.com Inc. Amazon AMZN, -1.39%, the online retail giant who...