agriculture

Strong thunderstorms last weekend put a big damper on what was looking like a bumper crop for many California cherry growers. While it's too early to put an official dollar value on the damage, the general feeling is that the equivalent of a few million boxes of cherries have been lost. The crops...

Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) tempered its revenue, net income and cash flow outlook for 2019, but RBC Capital Markets said Monday investors should expect the company to keep plowing along and maintained a bullish long-term outlook on the stock. The Analyst RBC's Seth Weber maintained an...

Stocks have taken a beating in the past two weeks thanks to a rise in international trade tensions between the U.S. and China. China is targeting U.S. agriculture with its latest round of tariffs, but one analyst has suggested an agriculture pair trade to help investors mitigate the trade war risk...

  The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) lowered its export projections for corn and wheat in the 2018-2019 harvest season amid slumping grain volumes and Midwest rail operations coping from last month's record flooding. In USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates...

  The Canadian government is reportedly considering additional tariffs on U.S. products to step up pressure on the Trump administration over levies on steel and aluminum.   Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. David MacNaughton suggested that pork, wine, apples and ethanol could be...

Nothing gets to the heart of decentralized, organic blockchain technology growth like mandated governmental legislation to search for potential use cases. In response to our neighbor and technology powerhouse, Wyoming, pushing through legislation on digital assets focusing on cryptocurrency, the...

Indigo Agriculture, a company dedicated to improving farmer profitability through sustainable agriculture, has launched Indigo Transport, its digital logistics platform designed to connect shippers and carriers to more efficiently haul agricultural products. FreightWaves spoke with Frank Crespo,...

The Grain Transport Report, a weekly publication by the Agricultural Marketing Service (a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture) released information showing that total export inspections for grain (corn, wheat and soybeans) declined 22 percent from the previous week. The report said that...

The Chinese government is considering buying up to 7 million tons of U.S. wheat, Bloomberg reported Tuesday afternoon. The proposal has been floated as a means to help reduce the China - U.S. trade deficit and make progress toward a resolution in the countries' ongoing trade dispute. China has...

Cattle truck drivers have welcomed the first of a series of upgrades to roads in remote regions of Australia. It's part of the Northern Australia Beef Roads Program, a A$100 million (US$72 million) Australian Federal Government initiative to upgrade rural livestock logistics. The first project...

After more than a full year on the sidelines, BMO Capital Markets found five reasons to turn bullish on Nutrien Ltd (NYSE: NTR), a provider of crop inputs and services that produces and distributes potash, nitrogen and phosphate products globally.  The Analyst Analyst Joel Jackson...

Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) reported  fiscal fourth-quarter results Wednesday that fell short of what analysts were expecting. The report sent shares of Deere lower by 3 percent premarket; the stock was trading up 4.73 percent at $144.99 at the time of publication.  What...

Germany drugmaker Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto closed this week after a challenging two-year-long review process. Despite creating the world's largest seed and agricultural chemicals maker, the "highly competitive environment" will remain unchanged, Bayer CEO Werner...

Increased exposure to agriculture stocks like FMC Corp (NYSE: FMC) simply "makes sense" after the sentiment surrounding the sector likely troughed — albeit against depressed levels, according to BMO Capital Markets.  The Analyst BMO's Joel Jackson upgraded FMC from...

Citi upgraded Archer Daniels Midland Co (NYSE: ADM)'s stock last week, and the processor of agricultural commodities earned another upgrade Sunday courtesy of Goldman Sachs.  The Analyst Goldman Sachs' Adam Samuelson upgraded Archer Daniels' stock rating from Neutral to Buy...