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Brazil’s BRF sees holiday food sales back to pre-pandemic level

By Roberto Samora December 15, 2021

Reuters – Brazilian pork and poultry processor BRF SA expects food sales to return to pre-pandemic levels during the holiday season as consumers and families gather again after almost two years of social distancing. In an interview with Reuters Dec. 1, Sidney Manzaro, who leads the company’s Brazilian operation, said he does not expect the

UAW picketers march across the street outside of Deere & Co., makers of John Deere products, in support of employees on strike on Oct. 20, 2021, in Ankeny. Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters Connect

Deere considers rejected offer its “best and final” as strike continues

By GFM Network News November 4, 2021

Reuters – Deere & Co said on Wednesday its latest offer rejected by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is the U.S. tractor maker’s “best and final offer”, adding that it will keep all options open as the workers’ strike continues. Workers at the Illinois-based company continued their three-week-old strike a day after they voted

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U.S., UAE lead $4-bln effort to help farming adapt to climate change

By GFM Network News November 2, 2021

Johannesburg | Reuters – The United States and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday used COP26 climate talks to launch efforts to channel funding into making agriculture resilient to climate change, as well as to cut its emissions. The farming industry, a major part of the U.S. economy, is already battling the effects of climate change, including

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Bunge raises 2021 profit outlook on higher food, renewable fuel demand

By Arunima Kumar, GFM Network News, Karl Plume October 27, 2021

Bunge Ltd reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter results and raised its full-year profit outlook on Wednesday for a third time this year amid improved demand for food and renewable fuel as pandemic restrictions have eased. Although volumes in the U.S. agricultural commodities trader’s core agribusiness and its refined and specialty oils units were down, robust oilseed processing

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Kazakhstan sees 2021 grain crop down due to drought

By Reuters August 30, 2021

Kazakhstan expects its 2021 grain crop to fall by 24 per cent to 15.3 million tonnes after drought hit main producing regions of the Central Asian nation, acting Agriculture Minister Yerbol Karashokeyev told a government meeting Aug. 17. Kazakhstan, the top grain producer in Central Asia, has been hit by dry and hot weather in

Stuart Watts, a director of Glenfiddich parent company William Grant & Sons, stands by a fuelling station next to their truck, that runs on whiskey-by-product based biogas, in Dufftown, Scotland.

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Whisky waste used to fuel trucks

Glenfiddich makes 'one for the road'

By Nick Carey August 18, 2021

Reuters – Scotch whisky maker Glenfiddich has begun converting its delivery trucks to run on low-emission biogas, made from waste products from its own whisky distilling process, as part of a “closed loop” sustainability initiative, the company announced in late July. Glenfiddich said it has installed fuelling stations at its Dufftown distillery in northeastern Scotland

Slow U.S. corn shipments could pressure supply forecasts

By GFM Network News, Karen Braun August 11, 2021

Reuters – The United States has already secured a record corn export campaign for the nearly concluded season, but the shipments are unlikely to match the government’s current forecast because the pace has recently been too slow. Disappointing export inspections last week – a marketing year low – might be an indication that the U.S.

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Flood-hit Chinese county needs disinfectants to tackle dead livestock

More than a million animals were lost after heavy rains in the province of Henan, raising worries about disease spread

By Hallie Gu, Shivani Singh August 10, 2021

Reuters – China’s animal husbandry association urged companies July 27 to donate large volumes of disinfectants for a county in the central province of Henan, where widespread floods have killed thousands of livestock. The rotting carcasses of dead animals easily produce pathogens, but material for disinfection is insufficient, the semi-official China Animal Agriculture Association said

Scientists emphasize that the effects of climate change are already here. Photo: Getty Images

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Once-in-50-year heat waves now happening every decade: U.N. climate report

By GFM Network News August 9, 2021

Reuters – Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a U.N. climate science report said on Monday. The report www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1 found that we are already experiencing those effects of climate

Bear Flag says its company’s technology is designed to be installed on an existing tractor.
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Deere, Bear Flag aim to automate tractors as ‘fast as possible’

By GFM Network News August 5, 2021

Reuters – U.S. tractor maker Deere & Co said on Thursday it would buy tech startup Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million, with the goal of developing over the next year systems Deere can sell to allow farm tractors to operate without a human driver in the cab. “We are effectively in market with real

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U.S. grains: Soybeans continue gains on Trump’s China comments

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end week higher on tight supply

Pea, lentil outlooks have some positive signals – Penner

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