The Van Trump Report

Month: March 2022

Checking in on Brazil’s Safrinha Corn Crop

Global corn supplies face a high degree of uncertainty following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is responsible for around 17% of the world’s exports. With Ukraine’s remaining corn exports for this season in question and a likely substantial reduction in plantings later this spring, there is an increasing amount of attention on Brazil’s second corn …

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FAPRI Outlook Highlights Uncertainty for Global Ag Markets

The University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Institute (FAPRI) just released its Agricultural Markets Outlook. FAPRI uses their models to develop a range of projected market outcomes that consider major sources of uncertainty about future supply and demand conditions. This year’s projections were based on market information in January 2022, which was before Russia’s …

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A New Kind of Agriculture at the World’s First Indoor Vertical Saltwater Farm

Thousands of years after it was first introduced, traditional agriculture is seeing some big changes as it tries to overcome years of chemical fertilizer reliance, and in some cases a negative impact on ecosystems. At the same time, the oceans are offering an alternative opportunity to grow food in new ways without many of the …

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NOAA’s Revised Spring Outlook for Drought and Flooding

NOAA recently released their revised U.S. Spring Outlook and for the second year in a row forecasters predict prolonged persistent drought in the West with below-average precipitation most likely. NOAA is also forecasting above-average temperatures for most of the U.S. from April to June. With nearly 60% of the continental U.S. experiencing minor to exceptional …

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Son of Potato Farmer Takes the French Fry Global… and Becomes Billionaire!

Dubbed the ‘King of the French Fry’ Harrison McCain was a straight-talking son of a potato farmer, who along with his brother Wallace, would create a global commodity and a calling card of American culture, the frozen “French Fry”.  Until Harrison came along the potatoes grown on land near his home had always been baked …

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Beef From CRISPR-Edited Cattle Could Soon be in Grocery Stores

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added a new genetically modified beef cattle to its growing list of CRISPR-edited foods that are approved for human consumption. The cattle, created by Recombinetics, were bioengineered to have short-hair coat trait known as a “slick” coat. While this is the third genetically modified animal to win FDA …

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