by Travis Martin | Dec 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Honduras, Central America’s coffee king, just got walloped. Back-to-back Category 4 hurricanes nailed the country’s coffee hub within two weeks of each other in November. The storms, named Eta and Iota, dumped a collective 49 inches of rain that led to intense...
by Travis Martin | Dec 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Nutrien, the world’s largest provider of crop inputs and services, isn’t joking around when it comes to the $215 billion carbon market.The ag retail king is rolling out a pilot program targeting 100,000 acres in 2021 to drive growers to sell environmental credits they...
by Travis Martin | Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Like most crops in the commodity family in 2020, cotton could use a breather.Prices are just now bouncing back after the ‘pandemic plummet’ when futures sank more than twenty cents from February to April.A trifecta of intercontinental and economic factors nailed the...
by Travis Martin | Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Rural broadband, or lack thereof, is getting airwaves again in Washington D.C. Notable gaps of strong broadband signals in rural areas have been illuminated once more by COVID-19. From families lacking high-speed internet for virtual schools to precision agriculture...
by Travis Martin | Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
For two years, the US pork supply chain has pulled all the levers to halt African Swine Fever [ASF] from reaching the homeland. Their next unlikely enemy in maintaining the ASF-free status: organic soybean meal. As boatloads of the crushed protein supplement hit US...
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