By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media As director of finance services with Farmers Business Network, Inc. (FBN®), Melissa Bermudez enables the connections for investors to finance the farmers that feed our world. With a mission to help family farmers maximize their profit potential, FBN’s products and services help over 70,000 farmers across North and […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Living roots and soil coverage, integrating livestock, reducing inputs, diverse crop rotations, and minimal tillage – all common practices that define regenerative agriculture. But how to identify the practices that make sense in a given context and implement them successfully? Austin-based startup Vayda just may have figured out […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Brad Nordholm’s 40-year career has spanned agricultural and energy finance, capital markets, and credit. Since 2018, he has been president and CEO at Farmer Mac, the nation’s secondary market for agriculture credit. He has shepherded the company through the pandemic and has guided the development of its current […]
Photo courtesy of Elders By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media Prefer to hear this conversation? Listen to the interview here. Elders, a leading agribusiness throughout rural and regional Australia, has been appointed by Hancock Agriculture, the second largest beef producer in that country, to market a portfolio of seven of its Northern Australia beef […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Oilseed & Grain News In February 2020, the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA), which represents more than 43,000 soybean farmers in Illinois, the top soybean-producing state in the U.S., welcomed a new CEO: John Lumpe. Lumpe is tasked with continuing ISA’s commitment to achieve maximum profitability and global competitive positioning of soy […]
