Soybean producers in Argentina have had a rough growing season with the La Niña weather pattern bringing both too much and too little moisture. Similar to the same trends seen across Brazil, the Southern Hemisphere’s winter and spring brought overly dry conditions that delayed planting and development of Argentina’s oilseed crops. Things looked like they …
Arable is building a community to share knowledge and advance agricultural innovation on the farm. The company enables farmers to digitize and optimize their decisions by providing data on how weather and other factors affect yield, quality, and harvest timing. It measures everything of importance to crops–weather, soil, and even the plant itself–using a set …
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Russia’s military has been building up near Ukraine and Putin is claiming ownership over more of the region’s sea and air. With Russia staging more military exercises in the Black Sea and massing thousands of forces at or around the Ukraine border, the trade starts to become a bit more nervous about global uncertaintiy. The office …
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Cattle production is considered one of the most important agricultural industries in the United States, accounting for over +$66 Billion in cash receipts and generally 15% to 20% of the billions in total cash receipts generated by all agricultural commodities. The U.S. is not only a top beef-eating country – number one in the world …
As we move deeper into Spring a lot of folks are spending more time out in their gardens. From vegetables to herbs to flowers, I’m seeing a little bit of everything already peaking out of the ground around here. For all the gardening enthusiasts out there, I thought it would be fun and interesting to …
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Oxitec has spent the last decade trying to release its genetically modified mosquitoes in the U.S., a bid the company finally won last summer. This spring, the bugs will be released in the Florida Keys where it’s hoped they can help reduce the mosquito population and by extension, the spread of potentially deadly diseases that …
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Plant breeding is one of the fastest-growing segments in agriculture and is expected to expand by more than 15% annually through 2023, driven by new crop optimization techniques and CRISPR technologies. But, in order for this market to reach its full potential field data around seed growth, crop protection and more needs to be digitized …
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Brazil’s corn crop has been one of the most closely watched in all of agriculture this season as weather has wreaked havoc on the country’s growing regions. Brazil’s unusual three-crop cycle adds to the difficulty of trying to forecast total production with harvest happening in one part of the country while a different area is …
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A new dairy-free cheese from Superbrewed Foods joins a growing list of foods that are not derived from animals or plants but rather through microbes and the magic of anaerobic fermentation. It’s another layer in the “alternative” food and protein category that could actually prove to be more readily accepted by consumers than cell-based meat, …
Joel Ross began his career in Wall St. as an investment banker in 1965, where he handled public offerings, mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other corporate advisory matters for a variety of clients. During the seventies he was CEO of North American operations for a UK based conglomerate where he acquired and oversaw six …
