Seeing $$$ With Seaweed

Seeing $$$ With Seaweed

Researchers have their eyes on expanding the $6 billion seaweed market. A partnership in New Zealand with the University of Waikato is looking to magnify the potential of the green microalgae. Asian markets have swallowed up the supply of red and brown seaweed for...
Ag Around The World

Ag Around The World

European Union: Britain Says Go Fish…Somewhere Else Britain will lock down its exclusive economic fishing waters to its EU step-siblings if no Brexit trade deal is reached by year-end. The nautical ‘gates’ will cut off non-British commercial fishermen who wade...
USMCA: Drama in the Dairy Department

USMCA: Drama in the Dairy Department

The U.S. dairy industry isn’t feelin’ the love these days from its neighbor to the North. Dairy tariff-rate quotas – or TRQs – are the center of contention. Under the USMCA, which replaced NAFTA in July, Canada had pinky-promised to grow its TRQs. By...
The China Pork Playbook

The China Pork Playbook

Go big or go home: the mantra of China’s top pig producer.Muyuan Foods is building the largest single site hog farm in the world. After African Swine Fever [ASF] demolished China’s pig population and sent pork prices to double their previous record, Muyuan is banking...