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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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 stop the law from going into effect. California’s …
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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CRISPR scientists continue to find new applications for the gene-editing technology in agriculture. One of the latest breakthroughs that could completely transform precision breeding is the use of “surrogate sires” — male animals that produce sperm carrying only the genetic traits of donor males. The researchers behind the project say the advance could speed the …
Meatpacking facilities in the U.S. emerged as hotbeds for coronavirus outbreaks. Thousands of workers became ill and +50 have died. In some cases, the communities where the operations are located have seen infections surge as well. Dozens of plants were forced to scale back operations or close down completely, leading to supply chain bottlenecks that …
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Most of us in the livestock industry have been shocked by the rising popularity of so-called fake meat products from the likes of Beyond Meat and Impossible that went mainstream last year. These “plant-based” products proved more popular among consumers than many had thought. But there is another threat that is gaining more traction that …
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I’ve been on a ton of calls this week and many in the ag space are rightfully worried. If prices remain at these levels or perhaps even lower, many farm families will find themselves in dire financial circumstances. The complications of coronavirus along with the fallout in crude oil has created a dangerous one-two punch …
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When the stock market shakes out and investors are forced to reposition and reallocate funds, we often see new industries and new concepts more rapidly evolve and prosper. Jacob Bunge wrote an interesting article last week that pertained to “plant-based” meat companies lowering prices and working towards becoming more competitive. Makers of plant-based meat alternatives …
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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% …
I see at minimum -10 million unplanted corn acres and perhaps much more. I also have a very hard time fully grasping potential yield loss on all of the re-plant and late-planted acres. Recently on the June WASDE, the U.S. planted acreage estimate was lowered by -3 million to 89.8 million. The U.S. average yield …
