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...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...The fundamentals are there: Ben and Jerry’s gives 7.5 per cent of pre-tax profits to charity and a fair deal to its farmers....
...They all have the biggest market in China.”...
...By 2015, Ben & Jerry’s had decided to donate its licensing fees from Israel to organisations supporting Palestinians, says Furman, and began sourcing almonds from a Palestinian farmer co-operative, but held...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...She added that government policies could be used to encourage farmers to make soil-enriching biochar from residue, and create a market for it....
...Farmers are also feeding poultry flocks and swine herds more feeds based on bulk vegetable protein, such as soya meal....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...We had more collection and big lots coming to market.”...
...But times have been tough for many Nebraskan farmers as a result of the collapse in commodity prices....
...“The market is telling the farmer, ‘we want more of this’,” says Lynn Clarkson, founder of Clarkson Grain, an organic and non-GMO corn and soyabean merchant in Illinois....
...The company was affected by the conflict in Ukraine, where a sunflower-seed processing plant in Donetsk was evacuated and subjected to armed occupation....
...Growing worries about the impact of raw-material production and trade on the environment and the wellbeing of smallholder farmers have meant greater demands for higher transparency from traders and traceability...
...I flew back with a just-published copy of V Is for Vegetables by Michael Anthony, the chef who put seasonal vegetables at the heart of the Gramercy Tavern menu....
...After hitting a record $5 a pound late last year, almonds prices are about $4.95. But despite the high prices, demand has remained strong, encouraging farmers to increase acreage....
...Olam had taken six years to map its own global carbon footprint and now knew the amount of carbon dioxide emissions linked to the production of 1 tonne of almonds and 1 tonne of rice....
...In June, Cargill halted operations at its sunflower seed processing plant in Donetsk, the separatist rebel stronghold in east Ukraine....
...But the price of palm oil – a key ingredient in shampoo and also in many processed foods – has tumbled to five-year lows in part because of a bumper crop of sunflower oil in Ukraine and neighbouring Russia...
...Ramps, available in North America in farmers’ markets and gourmet shops, make a good substitute....
...In recent years it has acquired or built grain silos, sunflower seed processing capacity and an animal feed mill in the country....
...The company said it was hurt by tight sunflower and rapeseed supplies in Europe, poor crops in the Black Sea, weak US grain exports and Argentine farmers who have been reluctant to give up stocks to merchants...
...Farmers’ markets and good shops will have wild garlic available right through the season....
...“This will become possible, if Ukrainian farmers are able to choose the best seeds and have access to innovative farming technology.”...
...It is one of the top producers and exporters of sunflower seed and oil, barley, wheat and corn....
...European-based companies, who fear losing their US market for GM products, are involved in the California battle....
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