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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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Aquaculture is a hot industry right now both in the eyes of investors looking for the next great growth opportunity and environmentalists that want to reign in the industry's expansion. Commercial operations has been hopeful about some of President Trump's moves to ease regulations, particularly for offshore fish farming, but that optimism is fading as the industry worries regulations could ...
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The International Energy Agency is saying "Renewables" are set to overtake coal this decade as the world’s favorite fuel for generating electricity. Believe it or not, wind and solar power have become the cheapest form of new electricity in most of the world today. Several groups on Wall Street are predicting an energy "tipping point" at some point during the ...
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If you look at the forces driving Cellular Agriculture you can see that it is scaling quickly. Just four short years ago, there were really only two players in the lab-grown meat game, today there are +80, and with rapidly evolving consumer interest, it could soon be +10% of the meat market. This year alone venture capital investment in cultivated ...
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Pigs enjoying a crate-free environment on a certified organic duBreton farm (CNW Group/duBreton) California's law banning sales of meat and eggs that don't conform to cage-free farm animal rules was recently upheld by a 9th Circuit court. The court ruled in favor of a judge’s decision last November that rejected an attempt from the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) to ...
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Funding in the Foodtech sector has grown at a +53% compounded annual rate (CAGR) since 2011, according to a new report from global venture capital fund White Star Capital. Deal volume has grown +27% CAGR over the same time period. White Star notes the Foodtech ecosystem is maturing with a large number of IPO and M&A activity. Globally, there are ...
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It's that time of year... make sure you have your orders placed if you are buying fresh birds from a local retailer, I've hard supplies could be a little tight in some areas. My grandpa always told me there were several tricks to picking the right bird for Thanksgiving. Through the years of travel and meeting lots of new friends ...
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U.S. hemp farmers could face competition in the next few years from Brazil and possibly be doing it from it a very distinct disadvantage depending on how all the regulatory details shake out. The agricultural powerhouse has draft legislation circulating that would allow farmers to grow Cannabis for both medical and industrial purposes. According to the proposal, only plants with ...
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The Dow Jones futures index traded to an all-time record high of 30,000 yesterday, this first modern American stock index was created by a not well-educated farm boy with little money named Charles Henry Dow. Mr. When the young Charles Dow left the family farm for the big city, there was exactly no one predicting he would go on to ...
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There has been a lot of questions and information circulating as of late regarding China and their cotton and corn commodities. Below are some of the numbers and headlines floating around inside the trade. (Sources: USDA, Wall Street Journal, DimSums, South China Post, JCI, American Farm Bureau, Reuters) Cotton - China's cotton market has been drawing some extra attention lately ...
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