Commodity Execs To Their Sugar Businesses:

Commodity Execs To Their Sugar Businesses:

Cargill is taking its turn with one of the latest trends. And thankfully, it’s not anything like a corporate TikTok account. The commodity giant is selling its stake in the world’s largest sugar trader, Alvean. The buyer? Cargill’s partner in the business and Brazil’s...
A Biofuel Boom?

A Biofuel Boom?

Soybean oil demand is skyrocketing, and bean processors are pulling out their “Go Green” stickers and gearing up for what they believe will be a biodiesel boom. Refresher: The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is scheduled to reset in 2022, and the EPA has the authority...
Farm Economists This Week:

Farm Economists This Week:

Wednesday’s release of the USDA’s Prospective Plantings report left many in the ag industry with a furrowed brow. Backstory Each March, the USDA sends out surveys to 80,000 farmers with the hope to better understand their planting intentions for the upcoming growing...
Amfora Plans to Pump Up Protein

Amfora Plans to Pump Up Protein

With a cool $6 million injection from Spruce Capital Partners and Leaps by Bayer, Amfora is inching closer to its goal of producing plants that pack a protein punch. The San Francisco-based food tech startup uses gene editing to make precise genome modifications to...
Port Probz: A Soy-Sugar Standoff

Port Probz: A Soy-Sugar Standoff

Soy and sugar-filled cargo ships are playing a seaworthy game of Tetris at Latin American ports these days. Historically dry conditions have led to Brazil’s slowest soybean harvest in a decade. Farmers now find themselves competing with sugar traders for space at...