Cargill sees U. S. meat exports slowing

“I would say it is slower than normal and it slowed quicker than it had in the past.” The growing global economic crisis is putting the brakes on exports of U. S. beef and pork and it may be early next year before conditions improve, a Cargill meat official told Reuters. “Globally, people’s confidence is

World food security needs collaboration

It is interesting to see how the current financial crisis is changing the way that we think about the world. This point was driven home for me when I had the opportunity to attend a symposium last week in Berkeley, Calif. entitled “Causes and Consequences of the Food Price Crisis.” Sponsored by the Giannini Foundation,


Corn ethanol falls out of favour

Corn-based ethanol is yesterday’s news for venture capitalists who, these days, are betting on everything from wood chips and algae to turkey guts and trash as potential sources of next-generation biofuels. Corn ethanol caught the imagination of U. S. policy-makers as a way to fix multiple problems: rising oil prices, dependence on foreign oil and