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Best of Bloomberg Intelligence (03/24/2022)
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Nutrient-Poor Farms Get a Vitamin Boost From Zinc Mines
Apr.18 -- Injecting an industrial metal back into the ground could prove a boon for farmers and miners alike. While use in agriculture remains small, sales of zinc-infused fertilizers from companies including Mosaic Co. are growing....
Curated Video
Losing Bees Could Have Huge Implications For The Environment
The decline or loss of bees could affect our food and other products, but it can also affect our environment, as they serve as a pollinator.
Bridgeman Arts
Fruit picking and sugar production in Martinique, Antilles, 1950s
Clip 3 from 'Paradis Antillais', a 1950s documentary about Martinique, the Antilles and the West Indies. In this clip, locals pick bananas, coconuts, pineapples, oranges, mangoes and other fruit. The crops are transported by truck....
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Barclays Chief India Economist Rahul Bajoria on Monsoon Deficit
Aug.23 -- India monsoon rainfall has been below normal in recent weeks. Bajoria, who is the author of Barclays monsoon tracker report, discusses the impact of rainfall deficit on India's economy and inflation. He speaks to Juliette Saly...
Sky News
Minister Claims GM Crops are 'Safe & Beneficial'
Minister Claims GM Crops are 'Safe & Beneficial'
Curated Video
The race to save the world's wheat crops from the disease, stem rust
AP Television
Njoro, Rift Valley Province, Kenya, 21st October, 2010
1. Various shots of wheat fields affected by Ug 99 stem rust disease.
2. Various establishing shots of Robert Oleloitik, a wheat farmer affected by Ug 99 stem rust...
Bloomberg
Yara CEO on Food Supply Disruptions, Gas Price Impact
Yara International ASA Chief Executive Officer Svein Tore Holsether discusses food supply chain disruptions and the impact of higher gas prices. The CEO told Bloomberg's Anna Edwards we need "much more regional models to avoid these...
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Soybeans Lead Slump in Crop Prices
Aug.10 -- Soybeans led crop prices lower Friday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest estimates showed there’s no relief yet from a glut. Bloomberg's Alan Bjerga has more on "Bloomberg Markets."
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Bayer Betting Plants Can Fertilize Themselves
Oct.26 -- Bayer AG is teaming up with Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston-based biotechnology company, on a record $100-million wager on farming technology. The seeds for bets like these are sewn at the Bayer Lifescience Center in Cambridge,...
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Crops for food or crops for energy, Mozambique's tough choice
VOICED: Crops for food or crops for energy, Mozambique's tough choice
Bloomberg
One Sure Way to Check Crop Data? Do It First-Hand
Aug.23 -- More than 100 participants on the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour -- including farmers, grain traders and analysts -- are currently heading through seven states to inspect corn and soybean crops. The sodden Nebraska corn and soy...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Ukraine war sows more turmoil for UK farms: National Farmers' Union
In the picturesque village of Itchingfield in southern England, hungry cows at Westons Farm jostle for position at the feeding trough, blissfully unaware that Ukraine's war has sowed more turmoil for UK farms ploughing through Covid and...
Curated Video
Former Software Engineer Aims To Change The Future Of Farming
A former IBM engineer is building open-source tractors for the masses in hopes of changing how food is grown and who grows it.
Bloomberg
This High-Tech Farmer Grows Kale in a Factory
Sep.20 -- In the kale-filled facility at vertical farm startup Bowery Farming, it’s a piece of proprietary software that makes most of the critical decisions -- like when to harvest and how much to water each plant. But it still takes...
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World Wildlife Fund CEO Roberts on Saving World’s Forests
Sep.15 -- World Wildlife Fund CEO Carter Roberts speaks with Bloomberg’s Adam Majendie at the Bloomberg Green virtual event about WWF’s efforts to combat deforestation and work towards a forest-positive future.
Curated Video
Obama Addresses Food Policy Event in Italy
Former US President Barack Obama delivered a keynote speech on food security and the environment, two issues that he has long worked on.He said innovation will be crucial in making sure that food security and protection of the...
Curated Video
Growing crops for biofuels while trying to protect local economies
Bilene - May 2008
1. Pan Bilene beach
2. Pan jatropha plantation
3. Jatropha tree
4. Aubrey Dunn watches tractor
5. Tractor at work
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Mr Aubrey Dunn, Farm Project Manager:
'We're right up against the Indian Ocean...
Curated Video
Obama Encourages Innovation at Food Policy Event
Former US President Barack Obama delivered a keynote speech on food security and the environment, two issues that he has long worked on.He said innovation will be crucial in making sure that food security and protection of the...
Bloomberg
U.S. Has Not Been Quick Enough to Help 'Devastated' Farmers: Farm Leader
May.30 -- Relentless rainfall has swept the U.S. Midwest. Rabobank is predicting an unprecedented number of unplanted acres of corn, the most widely grown American crop. A Bloomberg survey of 10 traders and analysts indicates growers...
Curated Video
US researchers solving the dilemma over biofuel or food
July 10, 2008 - Massachusetts and Louisiana, USA
Jennings, Louisiana. United States, July 9, 2008
1. Wide shot water storage tank
2. Pan left backhoe dumping bagasse into tank
3. Medium shot backhoe
4. Medium shot worker moving...
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California Fires Halt Filming, Send Edison Plunging
Dec.07 -- Wildfires raging across Southern California have shut a major commuter artery in Los Angeles, suspended filming, wiped out more than $3 billion of market value for regional utility Edison International and are threatening some...
Curated Video
Super queens selectively bred to halt bee decline
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4033684LEAD IN: Scientists in Canada are breeding a genetically superior queen bee in the hope of reversing a catastrophic decline in bee populations around the world. Bees have been dying off in...
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Global Food Prices Fall for a Sixth-Straight Month
A United Nations gauge of global food prices declined 1.1% in September to the lowest since January, potentially offering relief to consumers battered by across-the-board inflation. Megan Durisin Albery reports on Bloomberg Television.