The towboat Roberta Tabor pushes barges up the Mississippi River in Granite City, Illinois, US, on Friday, July 9, 2022. Grain transport is down from peak levels, but water level on the river is now a...
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CROP ROBOTICS 2022, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF DEATH
2022 Crop Robotics Landscape Chris Taylor, Michael Rose Are we finally starting to see the adoption of labor-saving robots in agriculture? The short and unfulfilling summary answer is “It depends”. Un...
Ukraine’s Success in Turning Back Russia’s Invasion Could Aggravate Global Food Shortages
A pair of Russian Su-25 Frogfoot attack aircraft streak across a Ukrainian wheat field as seen from … [+] a farmer’s combine harvester. PR Army In about a month, the Black Sea Grain Initia...
Bringing Food and Agriculture Leadership to COP27
The U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP) brings together decision-makers from 200 national governments to discuss how to address the climate crisis. But since the first COP in 1995, the role of food a...
Climate investor who made right Exxon bet on how to beat the market
A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Jessica Rinaldi | Reuters Jennifer Grancio was among the leaders at Engine No. 1, the upstart investing firm focused on climate and energy transit...
Where’s the beef? Rancher sentenced to 11 years for ripping off Tyson Foods of nearly $250 million in ‘ghost cattle’ scam.
A Washington state rancher has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for a nearly quarter-billion-dollar ripoff of Tyson Foods Inc. TSN, -1.22% in which it sold the meat processor more than 260,000 hea...
Plant the Seeds of Dividend Income With These 3 Agriculture Stocks
Certain sectors of the market lend themselves to creating great dividend stocks. That could be because demand is steady, margins are high, or the sector is experiencing a lot of growth. Examples inclu...
Wells Running Out Of Water, Making Meat From The Air, And Stealing $250 Million From Hungry Children
Climate Week in New York City has me buzzing. On Tuesday at Forbes’ inaugural Sustainability Leaders Summit, I led two back-to-back fireside chats about whether modern agriculture—built on cheap energ...
Impact on Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand: Nomura
Rice production in India has fallen by 5.6% year on year as of September in light of below-average monsoon rainfall, which has affected harvest, Nomura said. Rebecca Conway | Getty Images News | Getty...
UN says the global food crisis is about affordability, not availability
Food prices remain stubbornly high as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on, exacerbating existing pressure from supply chain disruptions and climate change. The war has “put a lot of fuel on a...
This asset class is poised to rise 38% because markets overestimate risk of global recession, Goldman says
Still reeling from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s higher-for-longer remarks last week, riskier asset like equities look set for another battering, on Monday. “You can’t have the stock market collapse ov...
We Are Asking For More Than Food From Our Farms. A New Cropping Option May Help Meet The Demand
Humanity depends on the agriculture sector to produce our food, feed, and fiber, and that demand continues to grow. Increasingly we look to crops as more climate-friendly sources for fuels, plastics a...
All the reasons a dozen eggs now costs up to 38% more than one year ago
Why are eggs so expensive now? Grocery prices continued to soar in July despite slower inflation overall, and eggs were among the foods experiencing the biggest increases. The average price of a doze...
The other reason why food prices are rising
The United Nations’ worst-case scenario calculation is that global food prices will rise by an additional 8.5% by 2027. More expensive fertilizers are contributed to those higher costs, with som...
Hunting Invasive Lionfish In Dominica, A $4.5 Billion Chicken Industry Consolidation, And The Moldy Grain Coming Out Of Ukraine’s Black Sea Ports
I’m back after my longest break from working in, well, my entire life, and feeling quite refreshed. How could I not after two weeks of organic juices, huge avocados and hikes to waterfalls and hot spr...
It’s a Tom Jones rally but it may be overbought, say analysts
The latest action in stocks may be a concern for the bulls. The S&P 500’s initial surge on Thursday to fresh three-month highs fizzled as the session wore on. The “peak inflation rally” faded. Fut...
Rivian, Illumina, Toast, and More Stock Market Movers Friday
Text size Rivian, the maker of electric trucks, maintained its production estimates for the full year. Courtesy Rivian Stock futures rose Friday amid more signs that inflation in the U.S. has been coo...
Ethanol Industry Wants to Bury Its Carbon, but Some Farmers Stand in the Way
GOLDFIELD, Iowa—As climate-change concerns grow, ethanol plants like the one in this town of 630 surrounded by 10-foot-tall corn stalks are eager to join new pipeline networks that aim to carry carbon...
There is deflation in some items as Wingstop notes dropping chicken wing prices
Three months ago, Wingstop put a shocker in its earnings release: It was seeing DEFLATION in bone-in chicken wing costs. The chicken chain reiterated the trend with its latest results Thursday morning...
Italian Drought Puts One-Third Of National Agriculture Production – Like Tomatoes And Olive Oil – At Risk
Topline A historic drought in Italy could endanger 30% of the country’s agricultural production, agriculture minister Stefano Patuanelli warned lawmakers Wednesday, threatening output of staples like ...
Modern Agriculture’s House Of Cards, Inside California’s Controversial Prop 13, And Why Private Label Is Having A Moment
As David Barber, a partner at agriculture and food investors Astanor Ventures, told me while reporting my latest feature, modern agriculture has been built on three key assumptions: cheap energy, free...
A Window On The Progress, Promise And Realities Of Indoor Agriculture
AeroFarms’ vertical grow towers in Newark, New Jersey. AFP via Getty Images Last week New York City was host to the Indoor AgTech Innovation Summit, an event which drew 600 attendees, featured 9...
Crops At Risk In Ukraine And For Its Food Import Partners
ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, UKRAINE – APRIL 08, 2022 – A farmer wears a bulletproof vest during crop sowing … [+] which takes place 30 km from the front line, Zaporizhzhia Region, southeast...
Cardano Founder Invited to Talk Crypto and Blockchain in Front of US Congress Committee on Agriculture
Yuri Molchan Charles Hoskinson has been officially invited to make speech on crypto and blockchain in front of Agriculture Committee of US Congress The founder of Input Output Global and Cardano netwo...
Top Agriculture Dividend Stocks for Q3 2022
Agriculture dividend stocks are equities of companies engaged in some aspect of agribusiness and which pay out regular dividends. Agribusiness includes farmers that raise animals and harvest fruits an...
Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Decarbonizing Food, And Especially Meat
A two-year-old pregnant dairy cow seen at Hillside Farms in Shavertown Pennsylvania. (Photo by Aimee … [+] Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Imag...
These cannabis stocks could benefit from adult-use cannabis legalization in Germany
While it’s too early to predict winners and losers among U.S. and Canadian cannabis companies, some of these players are expected to see a boost in sales as Germany moves toward nationwide legalizatio...