Down To Agribusiness

The country is currently on lockdown. Food and supermarket (including online) sales have soared in the country (including rice, pasta, animal preserves, tomato products). For crops and farming, labour shortages are a concern and could result in lower production volumes. However logistically, the agriculture sector hasn’t been affected for the time being.

At the recent Animal Health Investment Europe conference in London, Animal Pharm editor Joseph Harvey spoke to Elanco's Aaron Schacht about his take on innovation. He divulged Elanco's R&D plans and talked about its strategy for securing external partners.   

An overview of the impact of foot-and-mouth disease around the world (especially in Africa) and what vaccines are out there to prevent it (and their drawbacks). 

Ghana and Ivory Coast’s proposal for adding a Living Income Differential (LID) premium to sales of cocoa beans looks set to be approved and become law by early next year. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the CEO of Ghana’s Cocoa Board, told us recently that the two countries are expected to finalize their approach by the end of December with passage through the respective parliaments into law likely in early 2020.

Outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) have been so severe and widespread that the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently predicted that global meat production will register a year-on-year decline for the first time this century in 2019.

In our latest podcast Animal Pharm editor Joseph Harvey discusses his latest report, 'Animal Pharm Top 60'. Listen in now to understand more about the rankings in this year's report, including a discussion about key growth drivers, the impact of M&A and predictions for 2020. 

Discover more on the following: Stability in US granular urea NOLA barge prices Expectations on the India tender closing on 14 October China and the role of Chinese exports in Q4 Brazilian imports expectations.

Discover more on the following topics:  US urea market update following a one-of-a-kind spring season Latest on the July India tender Expectations for Chinese exports for remainder of 2019 Expectations for the next Indian tender Outlook for urea prices in the short-term

Following the recent IFA Montreal conference, our analysts talk all things Urea.

After the latest conference in China Urea analysts Elfi and Karl get together to discuss the latest updates from the global Urea market. 

Following the recent TFI Orlando conference our Urea analysts got together to talk all things Urea. Listen now to understand some of the key market factors influencing Urea supply, demand, price and costs. 

In this podcast Senior News Analyst for IEG Vu, Sandra Boga talks to International Sugar Journal (ISJ) editor Arvind Chudasama and Agribusiness reports specialist Alan Bullion live from the International Sugar Organization’s (ISO) annual seminar to discuss whether the EU’s sugar market is in a crisis, as well as other highlights of the event.

In this bumper episode we have four guests from across Agribusiness Intelligence to discuss what has become one of the most hotly-contested debates in public health policy around the globe – the taxation of food and drink products to change consumer behaviour. Advocates claim taxes will result in decreased consumption of unhealthy foods such as sugary drinks (soda) and red or processed meat, improving public health. Opponents, meanwhile, say such levies restrict consumer choice, unnecessarily raise prices for basic grocery products and are being utilised as a so-called ‘stealth tax’ and a new way to line state coffers.  IEG Policy analysts Joan Murphy and Peter Rixon assess the policy implications, while IEG Vu’s Neil Murray and Max Green look at the market effects.

In this podcast Senior News Analyst for IEG Vu, Sandra Boga talks to Cocoa Analyst for FO Licht Sergey Chetvertakov and Cocoa Client Adviser for IEG Vantage Mark van Stolk to mark the start of the cocoa season where they’ll discuss the effects of the latest farmgate prices as well as supply and demand balances for the year ahead.

In this podcast Senior News Analyst for IEG Vu, Sandra Boga talks to the UK head of Ecobank Edward George to discuss Ghana’s cocoa market following its recently confirmed financial loan for the 2018/19 season.

In this episode, Adam Sharpe discusses the recent outbreak of African Swine Fever in Belgium with IEG Vu meat & livestock analyst Max Green and Animal Pharm Editor Joe Harvey. Max explores the big questions from a markets perspective, such as why the outbreak is so significant for the pig meat sector in Western Europe, what efforts are being made to contain the spread of the disease, and what the potential impacts are on pork prices and trade.  Joe then provides an overview from the animal health sector, talking about the efforts the industry is making to tackle ASF, what companies are involved in this particular segment and what can be done to stimulate efforts to develop vaccines.  

In this podcast episode from Agribusiness Intelligence, Agrow’s editor-in-chief, Sanjiv Rana, speaks to with Phillips McDougall’s senior business analyst for seeds, Yuanjie Su. The focus is to provide an overview of the seed industry in 2017. In addition to identifying the major factors affecting seed market performance, Yuanjie talks about main regional trends as well as industry structure. The episode concludes with an outlook for 2018 and the impact of the mega M&As on the seed industry.

Adam Sharpe is joined by IEG Vu analysts Neil Murray, Julian Gale and Jana Sutenko to discuss fruit juice, dried fruit, vanilla and butter markets following the release of the new IEG Vu Half Year Outlook 2018 report. The Outlook assesses market dynamics such as price, production, supply and demand for the range of food and drink commodities featured on the IEG Vu website. IEG Vu subscribers can download the report from the Market Reviews section of the website. Non-subscribers, please follow this link to get your copy http://bit.ly/2LXVFgK.