Agriculture

After World War I, veterans took up farming and provided food supplies and wheat to Western Australia. But when emus began to threaten that supply chain, another war broke out. The emus won.

After World War I, veterans took up farming and provided food supplies and wheat to Western Australia. But when emus began to threaten that supply chain, another war broke out. The emus won.

The war has stoked fears of global shortfalls of wheat, corn and fertilizers, but the flexibility of shipping trades has limited the risk.

Hurricane Ian could slash the flow of Florida products to companies and consumers in the United States and abroad.

FreightWaves’ Net-Zero Carbon show dives into regenerative agriculture and how farming techniques can sequester carbon and improve soil health.

AskWaves explains carbon insets, how they may benefit companies and what limits they may have.

See how much a single rail car can carry

Ag letter is the latest in a series of urgent pleas to stop the denial of trade and increased demurrage costs.

A portal to provide agricultural shippers with visibility for their covered hopper cars will help them conform to food safety transportation standards and prevent cross-contact with food allergens.

Gary Berger and Patrick Jones speak with Fab Brasca regarding the hurdles and essential elements of successful digital transformations.

John Hoffman, senior research fellow, Food Protection & Defense Institute, discusses ways to successfully navigate the complex food and agriculture supply chain.

Jonathan Kingsman wrote a book that uses as its jumping-off point the view of the market first published in 1979 in the classic book “The Merchants of Grain.” He talks about how much agricultural markets have shifted since then.

Four Israeli companies have secured contracts with Pointer in the past year.

Autonomous truck maker TuSimple makes a deal with TRATON GROUP to expand into the European market and KLLM raises driver wages.

Containers are used to carry imports to the U.S., but they also carry exports from the U.S. The agriculture industry depends on them, but COVID-19 has caused the system to fray…

Most crops don’t grow without seeds. But how are seeds for commercial farming transported? Darren Prokop explores this topic.

Enhancements to the Bulkloads app are designed to improve the communication and speed of finding loads and negotiating rates for bulk carriers.

For anyone in and around the Corn Belt in 2019, the lasting effects of this spring’s flooding are still front and center in everyone’s mind. The economy has been impacted as two of the area’s largest industries have been hit the hardest – agriculture and transportation.   Farming and freight are indelibly tied in this part […]

Ben Thrower writes about the importance of American agriculture – not just to the U.S. population, but to the country’s trade negotiations.

The U.S. imports corn from Brazil ahead of the harvest season.

The system of internal waterways vital to the nation’s shipment of agricultural commodities is rapidly diminishing in its capabilities to handle bulk shipping.

Logistics startups are using data science and mobile technologies to connect grocery shoppers with local farmers.

Chinese tariffs are impacting American agriculture. But declines in exports to other countries are also hurting American agriculture.

Jim Blaze writes about the movement of grain by rail. This is a huge business for U.S. and Canadian railroads, and is also critical to the export market of the two countries.

Heavy rains this winter have delayed harvests and damaged many crops causing shortages and price hikes.

Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.78 for the first quarter of 2019, which were 11 percent better year-over-year, but less than NASDAQ’s consensus estimate of $0.83.

National freight volumes took a nosedive this week as Easter had a decent impact on the freight market, but how much of the drop is related to the holiday?

A stellar snow season has helped wipe out drought across California, including the Sierra Nevada. Should lead to a very productive growing season.

Indigo Agriculture has recently launched Indigo Transport, a digital logistics platform designed to connect shippers and carriers to more efficiently haul agricultural products.

FreightWaves adds agricultural truckload prices and numerous warehousing and real estate data points to SONAR.

The Grain Transport Report, a weekly publication by the Agricultural Marketing Service (a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture) released information showing that total export inspections for grain (corn, wheat and soybeans) declined 22 percent from the previous week.

Despite labor issues in Mexico and trucking capacity tightness in the Laredo market, 72 million pounds of avocados entered the U.S. by the second week of January.

Upheaval caused by the U.S.-China trade war has some freight interests uneasy about giving Trump more tariff power.

Missing USDA data on wheat stockpiles has traders reacting cautiously.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue threw down $25,000 for ideas on how to pay for infrastructure. And told Washington to open back up.

The third week of the partial Federal government shutdown is impacting U.S. agriculture. Without full funding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is not providing some real-time information, full financial support, or some critical services for farmers and ranchers.

Senate confirmation of Patrick Fuchs and Martin Oberman could be catalyst for STB Chairman Ann Begeman to take action on pending shipper proposals.

Ever wonder where the U.S. gets its produce during the winter months? Our latest infographic may help answer that question.

What happens if vegetables are grown vertically indoors? What happens if oil prices collapse? Those were some of the questions at this Marketwaves18 panel.

FreightWaves adds agricultural commodity and warehouse data to SONAR.

Martinez also said the process has begun to look at the overlapping rules regarding agriculture transportation, and he clearly doesn’t favor California’s separate rules on meal breaks.

Hurricane Michael’s forecasted track will take it right over the primary cotton producing region in Georgia and South Carolina, and heavy rain could threaten the harvest of the crop, now in its most vulnerable phase.

The stars are aligning for the 2018-2019 Atlantic grain season to give dry bulk shipping a much-needed boost.

Able Freight Services, a leading global cold chain logistics provider with 25 years in business, today announced it has joined the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance (BiTA), an organization dedicated to determining best practices and standards for blockchain in the transportation industry.

Ripe.io provides enterprise blockchain technology for the food and agriculture industry in an effort to create greater trust and transparency between food producers, contributors and consumers.

Hurricane Florence has intensified over the last 24 hours Riskpulse’s Chief Meteorologist, Jon Davis, and its Senior Weather Analyst Mark Russo explained in a webinar on Tuesday.

Canada, Mexico, China, and the European Union are among those who have instituted retaliatory tariffs on cranberry imports coming from the United States. FreightWaves spoke with Kellyanne Dignan, Ocean Spray’s Director of Global Corporate Affairs, who provided the company’s perspective on the issue.

Nestlé is the latest company to turn to blockchain technology to ensure the safety of their supply chain, particularly narrowing in on the ingredients that go into the baby food purees and pouches produced by Gerber.

Despite repeated efforts, confusion still reigns when it comes to hours-of-service compliance and when drivers can use personal conveyance or the agriculture exemptions available.

With Chinese tariffs on cherry imports rising to 50%, the Pacific Northwest braces for the impact on the 2018 season.

Although Brazil’s massive truck strike has come to an end, the ramifications are still rippling through the country’s supply chain, and it looks like it could take certain industries up to a year to recover.

Freedom of movement in the 150-mile radius, and a loosening of the rules to get somewhere safely are part of FMCSA’s latest guidance.

Freedom of movement in the 150-mile radius, and a loosening of the rules to get somewhere safely are part of FMCSA’s latest guidance.

The hard reality is that very little is getting passed in this Congress, and ELD-related legislation would need to break that pattern late in the game.

The latest case of E. coli outbreak is just another example of the impressive capabilities already at our disposal.

There’s a quiet spot market nationally, but we’re seeing significant upward movement for reefers coming out of California’s agricultural regions.

The threat of retaliatory tariffs on American agricultural products could hurt wheat exports, which are already struggling to compete on the international market. Railroad grains volumes in 2018 YTD are down, in many cases by double digits.

April 1st promises a surge of HOS violations; Uber pulls out of Southeast Asia; China starts trading oil futures; US Customs looks to upgrade their digital tools; Kansas City Southern hit by new tax bills.

The exemption does not apply to the wider agriculture industry, like a recent FMCSA break.

Perhaps one of the problems for the lack of transparency and widespread adoption of technology for farmers and the agricultural community at large, is the association of bitcoin with blockchain. While the two have emerged into the mainstream at about the same time, and, yes, both are virtual, they are two different things. Blockchain is […]

Truck costs from the Imperial Valley and Yuma areas are setting records, with some lanes to the East Coast breaking records. Though there is some mystery about the spike in the rates, it most likely can be boiled down a several reasons.

2018’s unusually late Chinese New Year means that port traffic will normalize and then accelerate for pre-summer shipments at the same time as California’s March harvests, causing a truckload capacity crunch.

Global ag giant Louis Dreyfus Company has successfully concluded its first international shipment utilizing blockchain technology.

With tight truck capacity, driver shortages, and doubts about NAFTA, how much will food prices rise?

American Trucking Associations President & CEO Chris Spear took to Medium on Thursday to tout the benefits the trucking industry will see from passage of the new tax law, including noting an ATA survey that says 50% of fleets are planning wage increases or one-time bonuses.

The USDA releases a statement claiming 2017 was the third best year ever for US agricultural exports which helped to spur domestic freight markets as well.

An NTSB investigation found that the FMCSA and Dept of Labor have failed to deter unsafe driving practices in the transportation of agricultural workers, leading to dozens of deaths in the past few years.

Despite continued complaints about CSX’s delays and no-shows, the railroad’s new CEO has made a controversial commitment to raising fees on everything from hazardous materials and overloaded cars to refrigerated cars.

Around Thanksgiving every year, lettuce growers in California’s Salinas Valley move their processing facilities south to Yuma, Arizona for the winter growing season. Click through for a video showing how they accomplish this logistical feat.

Cargill’s in-house blockchain will allow you to trace the journey of your Thanksgiving turkey, from farm to table. If this experiment in giving consumers unprecedented visibility into their food is successful, it will be expanded after the holidays.

Ag shippers are raising the alarm about the ELD mandate’s effect on livestock hauling and asking for a two year delay before the new requirements take effect. Livestock haulers face shrinkage and contamination risks as they cope with strict limits on hours of service.

A combination of slowing economic growth, burdensome tax policy, and weak infrastructure is crippling Brazil’s transportation and logistics industries. 

Conditions are still not satisfactory for rail shippers, even after the Agricultural Transportation Working Group sounded the alarm on what they call problematic and deteriorating rail service provided by the one of the nation’s four major rail carriers.

Agriculture industry representatives are still waiting for a response from the U.S. Department of Transportation regarding a delay for agricultural carriers concerning electronic logging device (ELD) rule enforcement.

One of the early pioneers of aerial drone use in agriculture is now looking to grow his business in more ways than one. Steve Edgar, founder of Empire Unmanned, is investigating the Pocatello Regional Airport in Pocatello, Idaho, for future use as the first-ever unmanned air-freight hub.

All agricultural carriers must now be in compliance with the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food rule, commonly called the “Sanitary Transportation Rule.” If you are a smaller carrier, though, complying with that rule comes just before complying with another – the ELD mandate.

All agricultural carriers must now be in compliance with the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food rule, commonly called the “Sanitary Transportation Rule.” If you are a smaller carrier, though, complying with that rule comes just before complying with another – the ELD mandate.

Grain supplies have been trending up in the U.S. as prices have remained relatively stable, causing farmers to hold onto their crops longer hoping for a boost in prices. Hurricane Harvey, though, is making the situation worse as grain exports have nearly stopped.

After a few years of “rest” XPO Logistics is again in acquisition mode. CEO Bradley Jacobs, speaking at a supply chain conference in Chicago, says the company is looking for potential takeover targets, including options in Europe.

The lifeblood for many small trucking companies and independent truckers is the load board. There is no shortage of load boards, and differentiating between them can be difficult. For truckers who handle bulk products, though, finding loads on a generic load board can be time consuming. That’s what Bulkloads.com is trying to change.

They say farm to fork, but without trucks, the farm never makes it to the stores, much less the fork. And that’s why ag haulers are so in tune with their shipping partners. When farmers suffer from crop delays for any reason – trucking is affected.