Test Tube Meat?
BILL KIERNAN Director, GAI Research & Insight This year scientists in The Netherlands announced that they plan to produce the first laboratory-grown hamburger by October. Using bovine stem cells from living donor animals, researchers have created small
Read moreCo-investment: A Positive Direction for Australian Dairy Farmland
ROD BANKS Founder & Managing Director, CowBank Pty Ltd It is my opinion that the Australia dairy industry is poised for expansion and presents an exciting opportunity for farmland investment. In August 2012 Gary Helou, managing director of Murray Goulburn, the largest
Read moreAll Our Kernels in One Basket?
BILL KIERNAN Director, GAI Research & Insight We are all fully aware by now of the devastating drought that has gripped the U.S. this year. We read about the plummeting corn yields and soaring futures prices in Chicago – currently at $8.20 p
Read moreWill Rice Join Corn, Soybeans and Wheat on the Commodity Price Bull Run?
BILL KIERNAN Director, GAI Research & Insight The story of the worst drought in the United States since 1956 and its impact on the corn and soybean crop has been dominating the news. This coverage of the U.S. drought has however, overshadowed Mother Nat
Read moreETFs Rally Through Drought
BILL KIERNAN Director, GAI Research & Insight The great drought of 2012 means poor returns for farmers and high food prices for consumers. Investors in Ag ETFs stand to benefit. Corn is ubiquitous, and as corn goes, so goes all of agriculture, co
Read moreAgribots May be Swarming to a Field near You!
BILL KIERNAN Director, GAI Research & Insight In agriculture, improving yield per acre and more efficient labor utilization is more important than ever. In a world that needs 70% to 100% more food by 2050 just to provide for population growth, we must r
Read moreGrass Fed versus Corn Fed: You Are What Your Food Eats
BILL KIERNAN Director, GAI Research & Insight Cows are ruminants, superbly adapted to convert grass into meat or milk. Research is proving that the health concerns long associated with eating beef result not from eating beef, but rather from eating corn-fed b
Read moreFurther Investment in Aquaculture is Critical to Meeting the Food Demands of a Growing World
BILL KIERNAN Director, GAI Research & Insight Upwards of 50% of all seafood consumed in the world is farm produced, but much more investment in aquaculture is needed. The global aquaculture industry is a tremendous success story, and one that I must admit I was quite unaware
Read moreDispatch from Israel: The Importance of AgTech
KATE WESTFALL Director of Content & Client Relations Global AgInvesting On Monday I had the pleasure of attending a summit on agriculture technology investment opportunities at Mikveh Israel (Israel’s first agricultural school, built in 1870), just outside of Tel Aviv.
Read moreNotes on Global AgDevelopments
BILL KIERNAN Director, GAI Research & Insight My team and I spent the early part of the week gathering and analyzing the latest news regarding the agriculture sector and agricultural investing for “Global AgDevelopments,Volume 5,” which was emailed to subscr
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