agriculture

As Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and other e-giants battle for dominance in the online grocery wars, a growing number of tech-enabled startups are taking a different tactic, aiming to disrupt the conventional food supply chain by using logistics platforms to connect...

The United States and Mexico have reached a deal to avoid a tomato anti-dumping investigation, ending a tense tariff dispute that had lingered for months. The deal was first announced by Mexico's Economy Minister Graciela Marquez on Twitter just before midnight August 20, according to Reuters. "...

The United States and Mexico are on the brink of yet another trade war – this time pitting U.S. farmers against Mexican tomato growers and importers.  The debate centers around the price of imported tomatoes from Mexico. Florida tomato growers have said the prices of imported Mexican fresh...

FreightWaves features Market Voices – a forum for voices with unique knowledge of numerous transportation/logistics/supply chain sectors, as well as other critical expertise. It turns out that the fight over hours of service (HOS) regulations and electronic logging device (ELD) use is not over yet...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/0 Farmers are protesting the national budget produced by Obrador, which cut financial aid to rural farmers by as much as 20 percent. Rural farmers also asked for fertilizer and other goods that they said were promised by the government. "In case the...

FreightWaves features Market Voices – a forum for voices with unique knowledge of numerous transportation/logistics/supply chain sectors, as well as other critical expertise. For the past several years California has been preparing to construct a high-speed rail project through the Central Valley...

Regulators overseeing the trucking and agriculture industries will be looking to make it easier for haulers of agricultural commodities and livestock to comply with work rule regulations. An advanced notice of proposed rulemaking to be issued shortly by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to resume trade talks, and the United States will back down for now from a threat to impose more tariffs, easing, at least temporarily, the high-stakes multibillion dollar trade war that has made investors around the world nervous....

A deluge of spring rains left many of the Midwest’s corn belt fields unplanted late this year, resulting in the smallest corn crop forecast in four years. The wet weather has raised corn prices, but added to uncertainty for Heartland farmers. The Department of Agriculture reduced its planting...

Farmer buying power will remain pressured for 2019, but this will change for the better next year and will help support Deere & Company (NYSE: DE), according to Jefferies. The Analyst Jefferies' Stephen Volkmann upgraded Deere from Hold to Buy with a price target lifted from $150 to $190....

While President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have agreed to meet at the G20 Summit in Japan next week, the U.S. agriculture industry remains skeptical that the ongoing tariff battle between the two countries will end anytime soon. U.S. soybean exporters said exports are down by 12...

Angola is a mineral-rich African nation, with extensive natural resources including crude oil and diamonds. In fact, Angolan economic activity far outstrips that of any other sub-Saharan African nation by a long margin. The economic growth rate has exploded thanks to vast crude oil reserves which...

One of our favorite images we’ve used when pitching technology in agriculture is monitors mounted in combines as farmers till and harvest showing board futures prices and basis prices at local elevators. Well, 2019 farmers are taking it to a whole new level. The Journal ran an article about...