Meat inspection: As of Apr 12, 145 USDA inspectors infected + 130 self-quarantine + 3 dead. Blows a big hole in the baseless, blame-casting, bigoted theory put forth by CEO of
@SmithfieldFoods
, an owner of
@Triumph_Foods
and
@govkristinoem
that "99% of transmission is at home."
@Gaber205
@WhiteWheatTweet
It gets better:
* she complains about forthcoming bills for emergency room.
* says "journalists are vultures" (her employer claims to be a news org).
@MplsWard3
There should also be a middle ground on the residency issue. 92% living outside of Mpls is part (a large part?) of why they don't give a rat's ass about their employer or the taxpayers. I've read that some cities have settled on a minimum of 5 yrs residency.
@MinneapolisPD
1/2
@ddale8
@natemuzzy
IDK who he is but "happy memories" while fantasizing about pedophilia, blood drinking, child murder and other satanic rituals. Strange definition of happy.
Ken Griffin invites you to one of his estates for lunch. While he's in the bathroom, you check the sofa cushions and find $3.5M. What do you buy? A 44-story office bldg in St Louis (formerly the SBC/AT&T bldg) or two tractors and one combine?
Best Cities in the United States:
1. New York
2. Chicago
3. Los Angeles
4. San Francisco
Was this written by someone with an underwater commercial real estate portfolio?
@MichaelEWebber
Here's a French mystery: With lockdowns, most US grocery chains & warehouses are having a good to fantastic yr, but not Casino and Carrefour. Something diff about major markets in France and Latin America? No idea... I haven't researched those two, just noticed the difference.
@netflixfamily
@netflix
You have the worst line-up of "Christmas" films. Don't be such a scrooge, you've had the good ones before. You're sending customers to Amazon Prime or other services for the classics.
If you ever wondered if
@FarmBureau
was just a wing of the modern GOP, with a large financial services affiliate slinging insurance to unwitting suburbanites, the first 10 pages of their policy book will leave no doubt.
Nat Gas, real life inflation: Businesses in MN that are unhedged or don't have other pricing agreements are going to pay $10.86/million BTU in Oct, quite a shock from a long period of $5 to $6. Source: CenterPoint
Good reporting on what happens when you throw a lot of money at an agricultural start-up, staff it with mostly non-ag people and enter a couple of low-margin businesses with globe-straddling incumbents.
A reminder: Trade commodities, don't invest in them. If you want to invest, buy shares of a commodity-producing company and hope it's the right one. Alternatively, marry the son or daughter of a land/timber/oil baron.
60 Minutes discovered the U.S. is financing more than weapons in Ukraine. The government is buying seeds/fertilizer for farmers, paying the salaries of 57,000 first responders and subsidizing small businesses.
How cheap is pork? If the current "primal" values carried over into retail, there should be bargains in pork chops, back ribs, spare ribs, bacon and maybe brats and other sausages (but you're not supposed to ask how the sausage is made/where it comes from).
Eggs: Midwest producer (on-farm) price has fallen for 23 days and counting ($2.45/doz total). Current price of $2.66 last seen in late October, first crossed in early April.
@CitizenMom47
How many at that rally know about the importance of Wellington or Oberlin in the Underground Railroad (some of the homes are still there), or that Oberlin College was 1st or 2nd in the nation in admitting women and blacks? Or the Wellington connection to the famous Spirt of '76?
@MplsWard3
@MinneapolisPD
It's good to see the Univ of Minn canceling a contract and it looks like the Park Board and School Board are considering the same. Retailers - esp the prominent grocery stores should get behind the move to racist- and thug-free night time security.
@MinneapolisPD
Comments from CEO of Land O' Lakes to the banksters in Mpls (plus a joke at Cargill's expense).
2. Widows own about 60% of farmland in Iowa.
5. Rural America should be viewed as the “new inner city.”
For corn & soybean traders, here's what you need to know about whether it rained in MN in the last 72 hrs.
"Tinkle, tinkle" vs. "I just drank a 12 pack of lawnmower beer."
The grain business in one paragraph.
"I award you NO ECONOMIC MOAT"
ADM fair value $60 /Morningstar (this is a snip from their basic report, freely available)
@MidwestHedgie
Says the medical doctor who now has a hedge fund. ;-)
I get your point and I agree but "our best & brightest going into x rather than something important and beneficial to society" is an old complaint. X has been investment banking, strategy consulting, dot bombs, web 2.0 etc...
@donpcarr
Five males and one insurance agency with her husband's family name in Lake Nord, Bryant, De Smet, and Hayti, South Dakota took $265K in PPP loans, all forgiven.
Last week's fert spill in Iowa. Dead fish and other aquatic life for 50 mi into Missouri. Hard to believe this happened in 2024. This is not Billy Bob's Feed, Seed & Fertilizer.
@NEWCooperative
has *90* facilities but apparently no money for wireless or wired tank monitors.
@RiverRaccoon
@piper4missouri
Read below article.
No living fish. Acute toxicity. Killed at cellular level in gills. 265,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer into the river. Frogs snakes mussels earthworms dead. Water wells near river tested for levels.
@plotner_mike
"You would do well to remember that." That's a threat. Do
@BASF
@AgriGold
and
@360yieldcenter
support this kind of behavior?
Also, the man's twitter name contains the word HEDGE, not HEGE and not WEDGE. For a "reality" show about corn, they might want to brush up on mktg terms.
Top 20 US states by fecal density. If No. 2 surprises you (bahaha), Delaware is a small state with a huge number of broilers. Source:
@RiverRaccoon
and his recent book The Swine Republic.
The Rogan podcast placement is funny (bottom, dead center): It ranks next to garbage in terms of consistently factual information, but he's carved out a very profitable niche in serving up slop from both sides.
Check out this question from the category "Talk like a farmer" (it's 20 seconds long).
Based on this deep research, I'd say that contrary to market headlines, very few people speculate in ag commodity markets.
@ZR1Trader
@Breaking911
That's beautiful. Newsmax has obv gotten "the letter" if not the lawsuit (I can't remember); Lindell remains all in and I'm almost positive he's received the letter.
Me to wife: "Wife, we go through a lot of hot sauce."
Yesterday this arrived. I don't know which brings me greater joy: 64 oz (with a pump!) or that she occasionally hears what I say. 🤪
Ethanol and another chapter in big companies doing dumb things:
Mar 2018: The Andersons and ICM announce the "world's most advanced ethanol plant" in Colwich, KS.
Apr 2023: It's in receivership with an estimated $90M write-off.
Anyone who grows feed or food, processes it, or eats it should stop demonizing immigrants and offer constructive solutions.
Red Xs are major meat packing plants owned by Hormel and JBS. Over 10K Mexicans (+other Latinos +undereports) live in these three counties.
@ruralgoneurban
@bmreadel
@JohnDeere
@JDCLASSIC
THESE are the people that should be writing wellness/how to be happy books. A long marriage AND they're both able to get up on that tractor at age 90. Pretty impressive hips and knees! ;-)
Couple of egg factoids:
-McDonald's bought 2 billion eggs last yr, all from Cargill
-Cargill provided financing to its contract growers to transition to cage-free (article says $850M; that sounds like a lot... maybe an error)
I've had it with this halo of "plant-based" as though the incumbent product was made from oil we extracted from the moon.
<goes outside to yell at clouds>
Louis Winthorpe III explaining single product commodity companies, e.g. coal, natural gas or eggs: "One minute they're repossessing your Bentley and the next, boom, you're up $600 million."
@donpcarr
Well, well, well. Turns out the insurance agency is her husband. $56,416.34 in govt welfare.
Strange because we constantly heard "South Dakota is open for business" and the insurance industry, including small town agents, didn't suffer at all.
@GrainSurgeon
How do you analyze companies and gather investment funds with that kind of a response?
But he's probably laughing all the way to the bank.
Tough times for traditional biodiesel. Chevron announces closure of 2 of 10 plants in as many days. Tough also for small town locations. Good jobs but the future is renewable biodiesel, often located in/near metro areas with petroleum infrastructure.
Good advertisement. Funny stereotypes and you don't know what they're selling until the end.
P.S. This will play with English subtitles. That's helpful because the characters speak Australian.
Cocoa is mind boggling. $2700/mt a yr ago and $8500 today.
Society doesn't need cocoa like it needs rice, wheat, refined crude oil products and natural gas to function*
*might include coffee but sleep, tea, synthetic caffeine and meth are readily available substitutes.
Sep 24: Despite heat & dryness, Iowa farmers are expected to see good yields and income this year, USDA forecasts show. - Des Moines Register
Sep 30: Delta launches first ever direct flight from Mpls to Turks & Caicos, service from Jan 20 to Apr 6. -Star Tribune
Eggs: New all-time high of $3.88/dozen FOB the farm. In-store price averages about 70 cts/doz higher in normal times, but between promos and cost plus contracts, you might be able to find them cheaper than ~$4.50 doz.
US bio/renewable diesel, present & projected, is bad policy
* produce more edible oil, burn it = price increases
* we export less; we don't "Feed the World" like we tell ourselves
* we don't cut forests for beans (or palm) but other countries do
* biz cannot exist w/o tax $$$
People are funny, continued:
Visiting former neighbors in new home. Conversation starts with cheese, somehow moves to Michael Pollan, living conditions of chickens, and then eggs. (Yes!)
Both believe white eggs are bleached so they buy brown. <head-slap>
Food inflation: Hear me now, believe me later. Some items won't see much of a price drop even if lightly processed & underlying commodity tumbles as it has in *wholesale* wheat flour (down 30% from high and 20% yr over yr. Note post-2008 bread. "Never waste a price crisis."
Farming is a very dangerous occupation. It's up there with fishing and logging for injury and death rates. Unlike those industries, though, in farming a child dies about once every three days.
The industry, including
@JMManufacturing
, needs to do better in their advertising.
@MNReformer
He's also been suspended, demoted, cost the city at least $75,000 (in 15+ yr ago dollars), gets in bar fights, calls everyone he doesn't like a terrorist, career stalled out, etc etc.
Racist. Thug. P.O.S.
A plant nurse at a Tyson Foods medical clinic, Bobbie Gail Blair, 49, has been charged with 10 counts of impersonation of a medical professional and two counts of identity theft after falsely claiming to be licensed.
The patriarch of Rose Acre farms, 2nd largest egg producer in US, had a colorful mid-life crisis. A red sports car would have been cheaper, because a few yrs later his former wife and children voted their shares in a block and gained control.
These nat gas prices are going to leave a mark on agriculture (fertilizer production, grain drying, ethanol processing), and prices are 5x higher in parts of Europe and Asia. Ouch!
@Stonekettle
@natemuzzy
It hurts to see the
@USMC
flag sold next to confederate and Nazi flags. The military bases named after confederates cannot be renamed soon enough.
If you're reading this, soybeans have been at this level only five times in your life (2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 and today). 40 cts down? Eh... perspective.
Warren Buffet is getting into the US grain business (and about 100 other new things) via a stake in Marubeni, owner of Gavilon and Columbia Grain. Already owns Brock grain bins so, snynergy, baby!
Warren Buffet bets billions on Japan's trading houses
Berkshire Hathaway announced that it has acquired a 5% stake in each of the top traders -- Itochu, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Marubeni and Sumitomo. That's worth ~$6.5 billion
Berkshire accumulated the stakes over the last year
Pigs! If China has lost ~25% will they come to mkt and send pxes soaring? Hell if I know, but if this table is accurate (it doesn't include egg, dairy, goat 😋 or plant protein in the total) they may buy for preference and to keep people content, rather than a protein shortage.
Just returned from annual pilgrimage to dept store perfume counter. Reminded again that in price per ml, HP ink has only one worthy competitor.
Also, I allowed myself to get upsold via GWP trickery and an attractive sales associate (see Clark Griswold/Christmas vacation).