A Roadmap to Better Decision Making

I asked the kids if our family investment fund had any interest in buying either DoorDash or Airbnb stock on the IPO. DoorDash will be going public tomorrow, December 9th. Airbnb is scheduled to go public the following day, Thursday, December 10th. To make a long story short we collectively decided to pass on DoorDash and place our bets on ...
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Eli Whitney is known to American schoolchildren as the man who invented the cotton gin but that simple description falls far short of fully capturing what the "father of American technology" gave to the world. Whitney was born into a farming family in 1765 in Westboro, Massachusetts. The oldest of five children, he spent much of his young life puttering ...
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This was sent my way the other day by a good friend. It made me think how long before we are planting other things? These tree-planting drones are firing seed missiles to restore the world’s forests. In a remote field south of Yangon, Myanmar, tiny mangrove saplings are now roughly 20 inches tall. Last September, the trees were planted by ...
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Most Americans are very familiar with the Pillsbury Company which has given us a host of iconic products, including the company's Classic Yellow Cake Mix, every flavor of pre-made frosting, and those addictive Crescent Rolls. Pillsbury's marketing efforts for its various brands also generated iconic characters like the Doughboy and Jolly Green Giant. The company itself is no longer around ...
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Food technology has been a red hot investment space this year. In the first three quarters, investment in food tech reached $8.37 billion, which handily exceeds the total $7 billion raised in all of 2019. The bulk of capital has flowed to late-stage startups that included some of the year's biggest deals, including Impossible Foods, Memphis Meats, LiveKindly, and Perfect ...
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Mycotoxins have been a prevalent problem in U.S. grain crops for the past several years thanks to the perfect timing of wet conditions that they thrive under. U.S. food safety rules are very effective at keeping these toxins out of the human food supply but they pose an ongoing threat for livestock producers. Mycotoxins tend to begin in the field ...
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This is one you don't want to miss as Jordan and I discuss the current grain markets, what's happening in Bitcoin, the shift towards a paperless money world, post corona thoughts, Thanksgiving turkey news, AgSwag updates, and current investment ideas ...
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Thanksgiving is probably going to look different for a lot of folks this year, for the obvious reasons. One thing that probably won't change for a lot of families in America is the menu. Some people are planning to scale things back to serve fewer people this year but most I've talked to are dead set on keeping with their ...
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Drought is plaguing a large portion of the U.S. with more dire conditions building to the West and in parts of the Midwest. According to the most recent U.S. Drought Monitor, moderate to exceptional drought covers almost 40% of the United States, with the worst drought categories (extreme to exceptional drought) at about 15.7%. In the last half-year, much of ...
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An interesting company called Danimer Scientific is developing sustainable packaging and is expanding the capacity of its bioplastic production, which uses canola oil as a primary feedstock.Danimer has been in the news quite a bit lately thanks to some well-known customers, with Bacardi the latest to partner with the company. The giant liquor company is moving to bottle all its ...
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