It was on this day March 6, 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts, that Marjorie Post, the owner of General Foods introduced twenty-seven frozen food items, including steak, lamb, ham sausage, peas, spinach, cherries, raspberries, fish, and oysters under the name “Birds Eye Frosted Foods: A Little Short of Magic.” Post’s sales pitch was this: “Imagine having …

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Meati is a new ag company that built a sprawling new factory that can turn tens of millions of pounds of mushroom roots into chicken and steak. The company was started by Tyler Higgins who grew up in rural Montana, and his parents now raise grass-fed bison in Nebraska, so most thought Tyler would have …

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Google has officially launched its new agtech business, Mineral, which has spent the last five years in “stealth mode” within the company’s so-called “moonshot factory,” aka Google X. According to Mineral, the company in that time has analyzed over 10% of the Earth’s total farmland, modeled more than 200 plant traits, phenotyped 17 crop varieties, …

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A special breed of hybrid super pigs from Canada has started to travel south into the northern United States. The pigs pose a threat to native wildlife and may prove tough to eradicate. The spread of the pigs has only increased in recent years. According to Dr. Ryan Brook, who leads the University of Saskatchewan’s …

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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, or what Texans call “RodeoHouston”, kicks off today and runs for the next three weeks ending on March 19th. This happens to be the largest livestock exhibition and rodeo in the world. It also hosts one of the richest regular-season professional rodeo events with a purse of over +$2 million. Those that …

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The agriculture industry is already very aware of the devastating impacts of the global avian influenza outbreak that has led to the deaths of millions of poultry. In the US and other countries, the biggest impact felt by the general public has primarily been egg shortages and resulting sky-high prices. Now, as more cases are …

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Kevin Van Trump and Andy Daniels sit down with Carter Williams, CEO at iSelect Fund, to discuss current thoughts and opinions regarding the markets, what the Argentina crop looks like, export outlooks moving forward, relationships with China, theories behind the Chinese balloon, new developing possibilities with Russia, overall economy outlooks from all three investors, and …

Current Market Thoughts and Introduction to First Ag Tech Rolling Fund – February 2023 Read More »

USDA’s latest Farms and Land in Farms shows the US lost -9,350 farms in 2022, which marks a decline of about half a percentage point from 2012. Land in farms also slid, with -1.9 million fewer acres versus 2021, and a decline of -21 million from 2012. Other changes appear a little deeper in the …

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When we talk about drought in agriculture, much of the focus is on livestock and row crops. But if you’ve been to the grocery store lately, you have no doubt noticed the insanely high prices of vegetables, which surged +38% in November alone and are up over +80% versus last year. The skyrocketing costs are …

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Investors were surprised late last year when Ark Investment included Deere & Company among the companies in its new Ark Space Exploration & Innovation ETF (NYSE: ARKX). The equipment maker, best known for its tractors and other farm machinery, is the 13th largest holding in the new ETF. The rational at the time was that …

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