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2023 Farm Bill First Trillion-Dollar-Farm Bill in U.S. History
For the 10-year period beginning with fiscal year 2024, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects total outlays for USDA Mandatory...
Agtools Inc.
Jun 12, 20231 min read


My Grapes Impacted by Weather or Inflation?
Your today’s grapes come from different parts of the world and as Chile and South Africa finished their season, Mexico starts sending...
Agtools Inc.
Jun 12, 20231 min read


Specialty Crops and Carbon Offsets Eyed by Investors
Private Equity firm, Folium Capital, aims to raise $500 million for a new fund to acquire forestry and agriculture assets, as the...
Agtools Inc.
May 15, 20231 min read


Ag Sector Take Note: We Are Not Out of the Banking Crisis Woods
Recent bank failures have caused analysts to both compare, and downplay, events against the 2008 Financial Crisis. Overall, the...
Agtools Inc.
May 15, 20231 min read


Climate Monitoring More Vital Than Ever:
El Niño hasn’t even landed yet. That hasn’t stopped it from moving commodity markets around the world. The hard-to-predict climate...
Agtools Inc.
May 15, 20231 min read


Is your organization part of the 8%, the 86% or the 6%?
During the 2023 World Economic Forum Accenture presented a report, Total Enterprise Reinvention. Accenture beliefs that the convergence...
Agtools Inc.
May 8, 20231 min read


Five Ways AI may be able to impact the complex, fragile, volatile and global Food Value Chain
We are interested in the impact of AI on the supply chain, and more precisely on the Food Value Chain. Here are 5 potential areas where...
Agtools Inc.
May 8, 20231 min read


Continuing Grocery Sector Consolidation and AgTech:
The compounding effects of lower consumer demand, rise of online grocery shopping and delivery services, and supply chain/inventory...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 20, 20231 min read


Artificial Intelligence’s Exponential Rise in Agriculture By 2030:
Although still considered early in its overall industrial development, AI is nevertheless described as presenting as significant a...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 20, 20231 min read


Tyson Foods, Everybody Makes Mistakes:
Tyson, which produces one out of every 5 pounds of chicken, beef and pork sold in the U.S., in recent months has replaced the heads of...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 20, 20231 min read


Climate Change and Agriculture Weather is Critical for Securing the Yield of Most Field Crops
Farmers most frequently use short-range forecasts, which are predictions made between 1 and 7 days in advance. In the meantime, medium...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 20, 20231 min read


Food Security is Impacted by Climate Change
“Water towers of the world" – the snow and ice on mountains that feed fresh water supplies are becoming less reliable. In many parts of...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 20, 20231 min read


Farms Impacted by Inflation?
Farm sector production expenses—including expenses associated with operator dwellings—are forecast to increase by $18.2 #billion (4.1...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 20, 20231 min read


Fewer companies – from 46.9% four years ago to 39.5% today – are treating Data as an Asset. Say what
In a recent HBR article titled Has Progress on Data, Analytics, and AI Stalled at Your Company?, January 2023 by Randy Bean, the author...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 4, 20231 min read


Digital transformation is here to stay. With 94% of CEO’s planning to stay the course, how do you pr
The persistence of inflationary pressures. continued supply chain disruptions, and talent search and retention difficulties are fueling...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 4, 20231 min read


Why The Farm Credit Administration in the USA
Farmers have been among the most vulnerable workers to these cycles. The nature of farming does not allow for quick turnarounds,...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 3, 20231 min read


United States Farm Bankruptcies Fall Again in 2022
Overall, in 2022, USDA reports that there were 2,002,700 farms in the U.S., which was down from 2,012,050 in 2021, a loss of 9,350 farms....
Agtools Inc.
Apr 3, 20231 min read


Does Banking History Provides Confidence?
The first cooperative credit system in United States was organized in New London, Connecticut as a reliable source of credit for the...
Agtools Inc.
Apr 3, 20231 min read


EPA Pulls Back on Support for Fuel from Soybean Oil:
Prices for soybean oil, a byproduct left over after crushing the beans for animal feed, soared to records last year owing to growing...
Agtools Inc.
Mar 22, 20231 min read


Tech’s outsize impact
The recent banking dilemma at SVB spread to other small and regional banks, while the government stepped in and declared all SVB...
Agtools Inc.
Mar 22, 20231 min read
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