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UN’s WMO predicts El Niño extends until April 2024. One note, Easy Newz will begin producing free EU and UK crop production outlooks in early 2024. There is nothing required, hopefully this just contributes to farmers and industry professionals making the best decisions for their operations...

Alternative meat craze fades, agribusiness giants shift back to core businesses. Investing in food start-ups is a good way to diversify risk for the commodity giants. Bunge’s successful investment prior to Beyond Meat’s IPO certainly showed the potential to successfully participate in the...

Industry group cuts European total cereal production for 2023. COCERAL is the European trade association in cereals, oilseeds, rice, pulses, olive oil, oils and fats, animal feed, and general agriculture products. Their latest forecast has cut total European cereal production from 296.7 to...

This was on the free Easy Newz App last week. Have to click the link from your mobile (app story here) Dry weather is forcing Australian livestock producers to shrink their herd. Agriculture is once again booming in Australia. Canberra and Beijing have reconciled, opening up the world’s...

2023-2024 El Niño outlook October through March, the risks to watch. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) has issued an El Niño Advisory with a greater than 95% chance it will last through February 2024. Central and eastern Pacific Ocean temperatures are above average. The temperature departures...

Highly rated ESG companies pollute as much lower-rated peers. The Financial Times published a surprising article addressing the elephant in the room for ESG investors. More and more data shows that highly rated ESG companies are not delivering results as advertised. The data suggests that there...

On Monday, July 24, drones struck the Ukrainian port of Reni on the Danube River for over 4 hours, destroying grain warehouses. This was the first such attack on the Danube since the war began. Drones were used to ensure minimal collateral damage since this is right on the Romanian border...

The latest on the Grain Corridor. Russia has suspended its participation in the Grain Corridor. Over the last year, the corridor exported almost 33 million tonnes of grain in a coordinated effort between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and international groups. This safe passage allowed shippers to...

The two most common weather models are referred to as the GFS and the Euro. The Global Forecast System or GFS is a model taking in billions of observations from satellites, weather balloons, aircraft, ships/buoys, etc to generate a medium-term weather forecast. The forecasts include...

Thank you for the update. It very much seems to this point, the story for Canada has been traders outside Canada trying to make a bigger story, but now they will need rain in the coming weeks.

Widespread drought and wildfires dominate Canadian weather. Canada is dealing with more than 500 active wildfires due to drought in the western prairies and eastern parts of the country. Haze and air quality alerts affect almost one-third of Americans from the northern plains to the east coast...

We are looking at regenerative practices and carbon emissions by region and/or crop. What are good resources (websites, working papers, government orgs, etc) on these topics? Thank you

Regenerative soil practices could move forward by revisiting the past Colorado State University’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences released the following study, “Restoring particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon through regenerative agriculture.” The conclusions should not be...

The monsoon is falling behind, sugar will be the first commodity to take notice. (The impact would be ethanol, vegetable oils, wheat, and rice). The India Meteorological Department provides the below link tracking the arrival of the seasonal monsoon. Many crops depend on the monsoon for timely...

Every generation has its religions. It may sound counterintuitive, but those who believe themselves the most informed (Americans, rich countries) tend to be the least, certainly around common sense subjects. People are just inundated with so much propaganda and misleading information. After...