Agricultural fraud has as long a history as agriculture itself with many notable crimes being committed including the adulteration of bread, the shocking case of the Salad Oil King, and fake rare wine vintages being sold among many others.

Today fraudsters cost the food industry $40 billion annually by misleading consumers and investors by lying about the quality, provenance, and quantities of their produce to command higher prices.

These acts can adversely affect farmers’ livelihoods and even affect countries’ economic stability in the case of large-scale fraud.

Read on to find out more about agri-fraud and how to avoid becoming a victim yourself…

There has been a lot of progress on LLMs and Chatbots. FBN’s Norm was one of the earliest AI Chatbots trained with ChatGPT. While a promising start for the technology, there were concerns. Here is the story. We will revisit it a year later.

At the outbreak of WWII in 1939, Britain imported 60% of their food and the number of people farming the land was at an all-time low due to cuts in the interwar period.

The war was beginning to interrupt those imports and around 50,000 skilled farm labourers were lost from the farms to go to war.

How did the British government and the country come together to make sure the nation didn’t starve?

In my personal experience with microbial products, I have found that Fertum and Acadian Plant Health products share some similarities and differences with Pivot Bio PROVEN. Fertum and Acadian products primarily focus on enhancing overall plant health and nutrient availability by providing beneficial microorganisms, while Pivot Bio PROVEN specifically targets nitrogen-fixing bacteria to supply plants with nitrogen.

Humans have left their traces on the earth for around 300,000 years. Signs of their lives can be found by digging down into the layers of soil beneath our feet.

Archaeological artifacts to be found include bones from meals, building footings, dropped coins, pots, and pins. These build a picture of past civilizations and enrich our understanding of their society.

Our ancestors also buried treasure hoards and some metal detectorists have been lucky enough to find them in recent years, often on farmland.

Read on to find out about the good side of metal detecting, when it goes wrong, and the three best hoards ever found by metal detectorists on farmland.

What turned us from simple settlement farmers into the ultra-modern agriculturalists of today?

The Agricultural Revolution did!

The period between the 17th and late 19th centuries saw an unprecedented leap in new knowledge, techniques, and machinery, boosting crop yields, meat production, and reducing waste.

Here are the four key revolution innovations that changed the face of farming for the better…

The internet and social media have changed how we consume news.

It’s a crowded market where only the loudest headlines get heard. This has given rise to the journalistic phenomenon of clickbait headlines.

Shocking or negative headlines created to shamelessly grab clicks may hook readers, but not for the right reasons.

Read on to find out why people aren’t reading the whole story and how it is negatively affecting the industry.

An Ag X Special: Wild speculation around ADM can lead to real financial losses. Ignore the hysterics, don’t make rash decisions. Here is an imaginary story of what could have happened.

Here are the Easy Newz agriculture themes for 2024. We will reflect back on these throughout the year. What did we miss? Was it too obvious? All feedback is appreciated.

South American grain production update. Corn is moving lower, and wheat has stabilized. Rice and cotton are gaining acres. Argentina’s elections and Brazil’s dry, hot northern pattern increase risks and volatility early in the 2023 campaign.

Easy Newz updates its soybean production forecast. This approach combines one of the world’s largest weather and production datasets with its local network of MOGs.

Argentina expert and former Undersecretary of Agriculture discusses the election and outlook with Easy Newz. Ignore the comparisons to socialism and Donald Trump from the MSM. Here is everything you need to know from the real MOG.

Brazil is facing dry, hot weather in regions that typically receive a lot of rain and plant multiple crops. It is crucial to understand which crops are planted where and the critical dates. Easy Newz brings you the power of the Man on the Ground (MOG).

Easy Newz and wt360 provide the starting point for South American crop production for 2023/24. Understand the data, modeling, and the need for the MOG. Updates for major crops, including soybeans, corn, wheat, and sunflower will be available.

Things rarely happen in financial and commodity markets when everyone expects it. A look back one year after Bloomberg Economics sees a 100% chance of a recession.

Easy Newz primer on yield forecasting, and why 2023 is an exceptionally difficult year for modeling. It is important to have an objective, unbiased approach to anchor decision-making.

Argentina’s economic collapse has caught the world’s attention. The first-round election results indicate change might finally be a real possibility. How did it end up here?

Farmers are busy people, they live in the “real” world, they know where “stuff” comes from, they create the “stuff”, they take pride on it, and they pass it down through generations.