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#AgAlerts: Another milk bankruptcy; GM crops; Impossible Pork
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Borden Dairy Co., one of America's oldest and largest dairy companies, on Monday became the second major milk producer to file for bankruptcy in the last two months.
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#AgAlerts: Atrazine; salmonella; Russian soybeans
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According to a well-presented American Farm Bureau analysis released in October, U.S. farm income in 2019 will reach $88 billion, or the highest net farm income since 2014’s $92 billion, but it will still be a third lower than the record high in 2013.
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#AgAlerts: AI; milk monopoly; farm bankruptcies
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Not good news for the dairy farmers. After Dean announced it had filed for bankruptcy, Dairy Farmers of America said it was in “advanced discussions” on an acquisition. A merger would all but guarantee lower income for farmers.
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#AgAlerts: New feed mill and meat packaging facilities; weather; plant-based meat taste
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A roundup of news, reports, and research on agribusiness and related issues. Cargill opens expanded $34m feed mill at Texas site | Feednavigator.com
A renovated Cargill feed production facility in Temple, Texas has gone live; it has been expanded to 70,000 square feet to address feed demand in the region. Inside the little-known world of flavorists, who are trying to make plant-based meat taste like the real thing | Washingtonpost.com
These new foods are the opposite of whole foods. Some nutritionists and food industry leaders are wondering if the food system is being led astray by foods that need their flavor and appeal inserted industrially. China trade deal in sight | Agweb.com
The Trump Administration said the U.S. aims to sign “Phase One” deal this month (possibly in Iowa). China’s Xinhua News Agency said U.S. and China had reached a “consensus on principles” during Friday’s phone call.
Rain, early snows delay U.S. harvest in latest blow to farmers | Reuters.com
The farmers just can't catch a break with the weather.
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#AgAlerts: Small towns struggle; pesticide buffer zones; farm bankruptcies up
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The current large farms, utilizing far fewer farms than in the past has created population loss that threatens scores of small towns that sprouted on the prairie in a different time, when larger numbers of small farmers depended on them.
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#AgAlerts: Losing farms; giant pigs; recovery from wildfires
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Ford outlined how sustained low commodity prices now meant that the average farm income in 2017 was $43,000, and that the median farm income for 2018 was minus $1,500. This had pushed bankruptcies in the farm states across the Midwest, which sell half of U.S farm products, to the highest level in a decade.
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#AgAlerts: Plastic in salmon; less meat and fake meat; China waives some tariffs
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The big agricultural firms are in part playing defense. Grain traders supply the world’s livestock farms with animal feed - a business that would suffer if fake meat sales rise at the expense of real meat.
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#AgAlerts: Tomato wars; Germany bans glyphosate; swine fever in China
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In retaliation for some of the U.S. tariffs, China cut off imports of U.S. agricultural products like soybeans and corn. That's led to agribusiness companies like Deere & Co. to announce it's cutting production by 20%.
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#AgAlerts: Missouri animal farm closes; soybean sales to China fall short; food waste
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A controversy we’ve covered in the past has resulted in a shut down for a Missouri animal farm.
JBS a big winner in USDA trade war relief contracts
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A Brazilian-owned meat processing company undercut its competition by more than $1 per pound to win nearly $78 million in pork contracts through a federal program launched to help American farmers offset the impact from an ongoing trade war.