Approximately 40% of food in the U.S. is wasted, and the U.S. spends $408 billion each year processing, transporting, storing, and disposing of food that’s never eaten. Meanwhile food insecurity is ex...
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China Gives Alibaba, Other Stocks a Lifeline. Can It Last?
Text size China said it would roll out market-friendly policies to help boost the stock market. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images With a handful of vague comments about rolling out market-friendly poli...
Organic Agriculture Nightmare Tanks Sri Lanka’s Economy
A tea plantation near the Nuwara Eliya plateau at an elevation of 1,900 meters. Government-forced … [+] organic farming methods have devastated the industry and the people in it. Vyacheslav Arge...
The Russia-Ukraine war is fueling the ‘biggest supply shock to global grain markets’ in living memory
Wheat futures have surged by more than 40% over the last five days, on track for the biggest weekly rise since at least 1959 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine crimps exports of the crucial food grain an...
Pittsburgh robot farm business of future backed by Pritzker billions
Currently less than 1% of fresh produce is grown through hydroponics systems versus open-field agriculture, but this segment is forecast by Mordor Intelligence to grow by nearly 11,% or about $600 mil...
Impact Investment Fund Managers Turn Agri-Food Investment Into A “Mindful” Practice
Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926-2022), an advocate and teacher of eating mindfully once said that “When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual...
Aurora Cannabis stock gains after first beat on pot sales in more than a year
Aurora Cannabis Inc. shares gained in late trading Thursday, after the Canadian pot producer beat sales expectations for the first time in more than a year. Aurora ACB, -1.08% ACB, -1.02% reported a f...
Why the Senate Agriculture Committee Holds Crypto Hearings
In brief CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee today about crypto. Many commodities are agricultural products. Bitcoin derivatives clearly are not. Rostin Behnam, ...
Old MacDonald’s Farm No More, Companies Invest In Vertical Agriculture
Vertical farms are opening with addresses in huge agricultural capitals like Chicago, Baltimore and … [+] New York City. getty Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, is taking vertical integrati...
USDA to spend $1 billion on agriculture projects tackling climate change
A wind farm shares space with corn fields in Latimer, Iowa, U.S. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $1 billion on projects for farmers, ranchers, and forest landown...
Bears beware. Past corrections for the S&P 500 are only 15% on average, outside of recessions
Even after a rough January for Wall Street, it might take the U.S. economy slipping into a recession before the S&P 500 index risks entering a bear market, according to Oxford Economics. “Equities...
Biden Warns Of Imminent Ukraine Invasion
Ukrainian servicemen taking part in the armed conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the … [+] country’s Donetsk region march in Kiev on November 15, 2018 prior to the handover ceremon...
Nestle’s CEO says tackling child labor in cocoa needs new approach
Farmer Oluranti Adeboye, 62, harvests cocoa at Sofolu village in Ogun State, southwestern Nigeria, on June 5, 2018. Pius Utomi Ekpei | AFP | Getty Images The cocoa industry faces urgent challenges. It...
Walmart makes an investment in vertical farming start-up Plenty
Plenty uses vertical farming to grow a high volume of leafy greens year-round. It plans to use the technology to grow other crops, including strawberries and tomatoes. Photo: Spencer Lowell for Plenty...
Lab-grown meat start-ups hope to make strides in 2022
Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of cultivated meat start-up Eat Just, has a vision: He imagines a day when meat grown in a lab is available everywhere from Michelin-star restaurants to street vendors...
Students allowed despite Covid policies
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday announced Australia will refund visa fees for vaccinated backpackers who arrive within the next three months. The country — whose tight, pandemic border poli...
China integrates Blockchain Tech with agriculture to regain Consumer trust
China has been in the spotlight for producing fake products which have a worldwide distribution. Guiyang is promoting big data integration in rural revitalization, says Ma NIngyu The edible fungus in...
Congress’s agriculture committees request information on digital assets from the CFTC
advertisement The US House and Senate Agriculture Committees sent a letter to the chair of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission requesting more information on digital asset marketplaces. The Se...
Tilray posts narrower loss as revenue rises
Tilray Inc. shares on Monday gained back some of their losses in recent weeks after the Canadian cannabis producer posted a narrow loss and played up its prospects for European and beverage expansion....
Buy Deere Stock Because It’s the Tesla of Farming
Text size Deere stock is a buy, Baird says. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Deere stock had a banner 2021. Baird analyst Mig Dobre sees more gains for investors in 2022. Self-driving tractors are a key t...
What the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine means for markets
Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are keeping investors on edge. President Joe Biden on Friday said he believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin had made up his mind to invade in coming days but tha...