Food & Beverage

Amazon's Push Into Pharmacy Business Is Full of Promise and Pitfalls

November 7, 2017

A move by Amazon.com Inc. into the $412bn pharmacy business would shake up how generations have gotten their medicines, but success could prove elusive even for the ever-expanding e-retailer.

Chinese Scientists Create Cost-Saving, Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs

November 6, 2017

NPR

Here's something that may sound like a contradiction in terms: low-fat pigs. But that's exactly what Chinese scientists have created using new genetic engineering techniques.

Inspection Battle Threatens Egypt's Wheat Supply

November 3, 2017

Reuters

Wheat shipments to Egypt, the world's largest buyer, are being disrupted by a dispute involving government inspectors angered by a ban on the expenses-paid foreign trips they once enjoyed to approve cargoes at their ports of origin.

Latest Use for Bitcoin Technology: Tracing Turkeys From Farm to Table

November 3, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Agricultural conglomerate Cargill Inc. aims to harness the technology underlying bitcoin to let shoppers trace their turkeys from the store to the farm that raised them.

Nestlé, Hershey and Mars Broke Promises Over Palm Oil Use, Watchdog Says

November 3, 2017

The Guardian

Nestlé, Mars and Hershey were accused of breaking pledges to stop using "conflict palm oil" from deforested Indonesian jungles just days before the annual Halloween confectionery frenzy.

Extreme Weather Knocks Global Wine Production to 50-Year Low

November 2, 2017

Supply Management

Global wine production is set fall this year to its lowest level since 1961 after extreme weather caused damage to vineyards in western Europe - the world's largest wine-growing area.

Book Publishers Go Back to Basics

October 30, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Book publishers are giving an advance review of the industry's future, and it looks a lot like the past.

Rabobank, UN Launch $1Bn Fund to Boost Sustainable Farming

October 30, 2017

The New York Times

Rabobank NA is launching with the United Nations $1bn in financing for farmers to transition to more sustainable practices as food companies and consumers are demanding more supply chain transparency.

Online Shoppers Want Fast Delivery - But Still Aren't Willing to Pay for It

October 30, 2017

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

More and more online shoppers want their stuff fast. But the economics of making that happen haven't changed.

Even a Nafta Collapse Won't Keep Companies From Moving to Mexico

October 27, 2017

Bloomberg

It wasn't supposed to be like this, but the folks who help U.S. companies set up production in Mexico say they're having a solid year.

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