Consumer/Retail
TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Fruit, Food/Nutrition, Ag Global Specialty Food, Consumer/Retail,

11/08/2020 SOURCE: www.cnbc.com

TikTok star gives Ocean Spray a boost as brand looks to Thanksgiving, and the future

90 year-old Ocean Spray got a big brand boost from a TikTok video that went viral energizing interest in the brand worldwide.

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Topics: Corn/Maize, Agriculture US, Consumer/Retail,

Nestle shrugs off Covid-19 impact thanks to pet food and health nutrition

Nestle raised its guidance for 2020 organic sales growth to around 3% after beating third-quarter expectations on Wednesday with 4.9% growth driven by strong demand for pet food, coffee and health products.

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TOPIC(S): Sustainability, Regenerative Agriculture, Consumer/Retail,

10/20/2020 SOURCE: www.forbes.com

Food Industry Is A No-Show In New Sustainability Study

When food companies don’t see a crisis, ‘innovation’ amounts to line extensions and retro, iconic boxes

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Topics: GMO's, Cellular Meat, Plant-Based/Animal Free, Consumer/Retail,

Plant-based NON-GMO and Organic Food Ingredient Supplier Green Boy Launches Plant-Meat Protein™

/PRNewswire/ -- Green Boy Group announced today that it has launched Plant-Meat Protein™; a functional plant-based protein powder that is NON-GMO and developed...

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TOPIC(S): Climate Change, Regenerative Agriculture, Consumer/Retail,
TOPIC(S): Livestock/Meat, Beef Cattle, Ranching, Consumer/Retail,

10/15/2020 SOURCE: www.cnn.com

Cows prefer to co-moo-nicate in person, research suggests

Cows are more relaxed when spoken to directly by a live human rather than when listening to a recorded voice via a loudspeaker, suggesting they prefer in-person communication, according to new research from Austria.

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TOPIC(S): Markets/Pricing, Beef Cattle, Ranching, Consumer/Retail,

09/28/2020 SOURCE: www.meatpoultry.com

AFBF shares findings on cattle market volatility

The group also recommended policy changes for 2021 among its members.

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TOPIC(S): Sustainability, Environment, Climate Change, Consumer/Retail,

09/24/2020 SOURCE: www.technologyreview.com

This restaurant duo want a zero-carbon food system. Can it happen?

When Karen Leibowitz and Anthony Myint opened The Perennial, the most ambitious and expensive restaurant of their careers, it was essentially on a self-dare. The married duo had found enormous success with their previous restaurant in San Francisco, Mission Chinese Food, but realized something was missing. “Basically zero chefs were working on climate change,” Myint…

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TOPIC(S): Sustainability, Climate Change, Consumer/Retail, AI/Artificial Intelligence,

09/24/2020 SOURCE: www.cnbc.com

Unilever is using geolocation data and satellite imagery to check for deforestation in its supply chain

It's relatively straightforward to see via satellite imagery where deforestation has occurred, but harder to identify whether Unilever's suppliers have sourced crops from those areas.

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Matt Brechwald is the world's most prolific agricultural podcaster. Consistently podcasting since 2014 Matt has hosted well over 1,000 podcasts about agriculture and conducted hundreds of radio interviews as well. From his farm in Kuna, Idaho, Matt has developed the term "Off-Farm Income" into a multi-national brand.