Category: Agriculture

Military-Grade Tech to Monitor Eggplants Rather Than Explosives

On a rooftop in the Jewish-Arab Tel Aviv neighborhood of Jaffa, a former military technologist and an ex-journalist sit in a transparent bio-dome where their robot is busy learning how to grow food. Flux IoT’s Eddy, a robot measuring less than a foot tall and resembling a life buoy, is built with military-grade sensors and armed with image-processing technology.

Tyson’s New CEO: The Future of Food Isn’t Meat

Tyson Foods' new CEO is on a mission to change people's perception of the iconic brand-which has faced chicken abuse and price-fixing charges. Hayes says he is now pushing the 80-year-old meat processor towards sustainability, plant-based … The new CEO of one of the world’s largest meat processors, Tyson Foods Inc., sees plant-based protein as a big part of the food industry’s future.

10 Tax Breaks Every Parent Needs to Know

Starting a family isn’t cheap. According to a report issued by the Department of Agriculture in early January, a middle-income married couple with two children is estimated to spend $233,610 to raise a child born in 2015.

Drugs disaster

The family are surprised. Their little farm is at the end of a bumpy track through rice paddies, and they do not get many foreigners asking to use the toilet.

There’s one key factor that shows why organic milk is…

But as it turns out, there may be one type of milk that’s nutritionally superior: the organic kind that comes from grass-fed animals. Michael Tunick, a research chemist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and author of ” The Science of Cheese ,” told Business Insider that the difference has to do with what the cows eat.

Africa’s Top Hedge Fund Starts Food-Focused Private-Equity

Polar Star Management Ltd., which runs one of the best-performing African and Middle East hedge fund over the past five years, plans to start a private-equity unit that will invest in agriculture to exploit rising demand for food. The Cape Town-based firm plans to use its own money to buy small farms and processing companies in South Africa this year, then increase efficiency through consolidation and better management, said Murray Derksen, a director at Polar Star.

Yesterdays

Conway High West students stuck it to a couple of math teachers and a very lucky senior during lunchtime in the cafeteria. Conway math teachers, Shiloh Harder and Steve Reed, along with Grant Blaylock, a senior FBLA officer and football player, were taped to the wall with duct tape.

Tree Academy promotes creative learning, entrepreneurship

Jack Dillon-McDonald, 13, a 7th-grader at Tree Academy in Los Angeles, displays the Jack’s Organic Savory Blend seasoning he created under the product name “Treesonings.” The school is designed to nurture and stimulate students in a way most public and private schools can’t. “I just feel like the environment here is very welcoming and open to what you want to try,” the 13-year-old Burbank resident said.

Deere Raises Profit Forecast as It Sees Signs of Recovery

Deere & Co., the world’s largest manufacturer of farming machinery, raised its 2017 profit forecast and said there are signs the worst may be over in a market that’s suffered a sustained slump lasting years. Net income will be about $1.5 billion in the year through October, Deere said Friday in a statement, exceeding both its own previous forecast and the average estimate among analysts, both of which were $1.4 billion.

Flowers Foods Coasts Ahead, Disappointing Investors

Yet the truly novel thing about Flowers is how it has done such a good job of building up a national presence in an industry that is typically dominated by local competition. Coming into Monday’s fourth-quarter financial report, Flowers investors were hoping to see at least some growth in sales and earnings, but the bakery company wasn’t able to deliver the pace of expansion that most shareholders really want to see.

Trump could approve a giant merger that’s scaring American…

By the time President Donald Trump took office, he had already gotten involved in one of the world’s biggest mergers. In mid-January, the CEOs of Bayer and Monsanto, Werner Baumann and Hugh Grant, reported in a joint statement that they had a “very productive meeting” with the incoming president about their potential $66 billion merger.

Here’s Why CF Industries Stock Gained 10.7% in January

In addition, long-beaten-down investors are finally seeing the light for a recovery in agricultural nutrient prices. The stock had a ho-hum start to 2017 until analysts at B of A Merrill Lynch changed their rating from hold to buy on January 20, citing likely improvements in earnings starting this year.

Weed 101: Colorado agriculture office shares pot know-how

In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, agriculture regulators from seven different states and Guam tour a Denver marijuana growing warehouse on a tour organized by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Denver. The department is opening up its marijuana … knowledge to other states and encouraging them to plan now for the possibility of regulating farmers growing a plant that violates federal law.

California clears hurdle for cancer warning label on Roundup

California can require Monsanto to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite an insistence from the chemical giant that it poses no risk to people, a judge tentatively ruled Friday. Monsanto had sued the nation’s leading agricultural state, saying California officials illegally based their decision for carrying the warnings on an international health organization based in France.

California clears hurdle for cancer warning label on Roundup

California can require Monsanto to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite an insistence from the chemical giant that it poses no risk to people, a judge tentatively ruled Friday. Monsanto had sued the nation’s leading agricultural state, saying California officials illegally based their decision for carrying the warnings on an international health organization based in France.

2 Stocks I’ll Hold Forever

Picking out stocks to hold on to forever is an incredibly challenging task. In doing so, you’re essentially saying that this company, as it stands, won’t be disrupted in one way or another for as long as you live and beyond.

Your Evening Briefing

At all times in life, one might as well metaphorically heed the instructions of flight attendants and keep seatbelts fastened. This will prove useful, as it did today, when the dollar goes into a tailspin ; or when bracing for higher prices on goods, gas and airfare; or when your company is the subject of a  Donald Trump  tweet.

The dirty secret about your clothes

A woman hangs dyed yarn to dry at a textile mill on the outskirts of Agartala, capital of India’s northeastern state of Tripura. In the Colours of Nature dye house, Vijayakumar Varathan is busy prepping a vat of indigo.

U Of Illinois Re-Launches Farm Policy News Website

LAUNCHES FARM POLICY NEWS WEBSITE Dec. 20, 2016 Source: University of Illinois news release Fans of Keith Good’s Farmpolicy.com website who were sad to see it discontinued in 2015 will be happy to hear about his new University of Illinois blogsite. The site, farmpolicynews.illinois.edu , features topics of interest to Corn Belt farmers such as: land values, farm income variables, agricultural production estimates, Farm Bill developments, trade issues, biofuels news, regulatory proposals, and other topics that are impacting the agricultural economy.