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Hemp Is Hot Right Now: Is It Worth the Risk?

Beverages
Consumer Foods
Grains & Oilseeds

3 April 2019

The hemp industry has got a lot of people excited. Despite headlines about legalization, there are serious regulatory, agronomic, and market risks that are being overlooked in the fervor around hemp, according to the Rabobank report, Hemp Is Hot Right Now. "Hemp and hemp-derived products like CBD will soon become a multibillion-dollar industry, but the road ahead is rocky, risky, and untraveled. For many hemp-curious farmers and investors, it might pay to sit on the sidelines a little longer," says RaboResearch analyst Bourcard Nesin.

Beverages

25 March 2019

Nimble, fast-to-market, passionate, and ready to drive positive change, startups are disrupting every aspect of the food & beverage industry. Small companies represent an endless resource for innovative ideas that can help established brands adopt new technology and reconnect with consumers. The question is not should you work with smaller companies, but how? Nina Meijers and Anne Greven are trying to answer that question. They manage FoodBytes!, a global pitch competition where innovative food & beverage startups share their ideas with investors and industry leaders. More than 2,000 mission-driven companies have applied to the FoodBytes! platform, giving Nina and Anne a front-row seat to the latest trends in sustainable innovation. In this episode, they tell us why large companies should partner with would-be disruptors, and highlight the most interesting and impactful innovation themes they’ve seen so far.

Agri Commodity Markets
Beverages

5 March 2019

Our annual Brazil coffee crop survey indicates a 2019/20 crop of 57.6m bags, signifying the largest-ever downcycle for arabica and a record conilon crop – and with a surprising lack of diseases or pests in most of the coffee areas.