The Van Trump Report

Future Of Farming

Everyone in Ag Should Read and Fully Understand… Your Future Might be Impacted!

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 …

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What’s NEW in the World of Carbon Credits

Carbon credits are in the news recently with the industry marking some significant milestones. Indigo Agriculture announced the first carbon credit purchase commitments from major global brands, including JPMorgan, Barclays, Shopify, and IBM. At the same time, carbon marketplace developer Nori is about to finalize the first high-volume purchase of credits on its platform which, …

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Insects as High-Protein Animal Feed…What You Need to Know

French startup Ÿnsect is so confident that insects can revolutionize the global food chain that they are building the world’s largest bug farm in France. The company just added an additional $224 million in funding that for the first time attracted U.S. backers, including Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures and the Robert Downey Jr. financed FootPrint …

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Is this Agriculture’s Next Great Tool?

While digital tools and the data collected from sensors, spreadsheets and GPS struggle to fully capture agriculture’s complexity, Alphabet’s X lab, the former Google division that launched the Waymo self-driving car unit has unveiled “Mineral”, a computational agriculture project working to take agriculture to the next level. “Mineral” is looking to change the current standardized …

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The Media Continues to Drive the Message, Pushing Words that Will Change the Way We Farm! Pay Close Attention… “Socially Sustainable”, “Climate Change”, “Clean Energy”, “Transparency”

People’s desire to know how and where their food is grown as well wanting more transparency across the entire process is a growing trend that is changing how we farm and attracting some of the most innovative minds to our industry to tackle this task. Most agree the current manner in which food is both …

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What You Need to Know… Big Money Leasing Farmland to Solar Operators

Solar is being installed at an increasing clip across the United States with large-scale projects looking to farms for the massive tracts of land needed for their development. In fact, I’ve personally spoken with and talked to several landowners who have recently inked longterm leases (10 to 30 years) on +800 acre tracts for between …

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Life is Good!

I constantly hear my friends and others talking about how bad things have become. They talk about more shootings, more violent crimes, less religion, etc…, but these arguments are not backed by facts or figures. They are mostly just strong hunches and hearsay. Believe it or not, violent crimes are much lower than in years past. Faith is continual on the rise as 84% …

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