Commentary

My, that is going to take a lot of aspirin.  After more than a year of negotiations, Bayer AG of Germany has agreed to pay out $10.9 billion to settle upwards of 100,000 lawsuits in the United States involving the weed killer Roundup.  Gauging from the statement by Chief Executive,…

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What do JBS SA, BRF, Minerva, Marfrig, and Tyson all have in common? Well, yes, the obvious answer is that they are all meat processing companies. Still, the one I am looking for is they have all signed certification that the products they are exporting to China are free from…

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This time of year, the corn and soy markets live and die by the latest weather forecast or crop rating, and for a while last night, it appeared that they had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.  With the chances of a high-pressure ridge…

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