Word that Amazon is buying Whole Foods sent shock waves through a food industry already wobbling from the enormous changes being incurred. First and foremost among the challenges are consumers' constantly evolving demands and efforts on the production side to match them.Word that Amazon is buying Whole Foods sent shock waves through a food industry already wobbling from the enormous changes being incurred. First and foremost among the challenges are consumers' constantly evolving demands and efforts on the production side to match them. Two recent examples include:
Natural Vanilla: Low prices a few years ago caused a decline in production. Now NPR reports that demand for natural, organic free-trade vanilla has grown. The result is that p...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
