Tag: Agriculture
Retrospect: First Harvest
A farmer, a banker and the power of the peanut changed Coffee County forever, as memorialized in this bronze panel at Alabama Bicentennial Park.
Guest Column: CFIUS Expansion into Agricultural Supply Chain and Genomics Tools
Historically, businesses involved in the U.S. defense industrial base have been protected from foreign direct investment by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the...
Bonnie Plants, individual gardeners team to fight hunger
Union Springs-based Bonnie Plants has donated $200,000 to ampleharvest.org as it works to combat food insecurity caused by COVID-19.
Moreover, the firm that provides starter...
Tools for Finding Best Alabama Foods (During Crisis)
Two longstanding agricultural nonprofits are making special efforts to connect communities with locally grown food resources during the ongoing virus crisis.
The newest resource was...
Ag Credit Boosts Alabama-Grown Initiative
Sweet Grown Alabama, the state’s new agricultural branding initiative, recently welcomed Alabama Ag Credit as a founding member of the program.
Sweet Grown Alabama is...
Is a Global Food Shortage Looming?
Trend watchers have noticed weather playing some cruel tricks on farmers around the world, leading some, like geopolitical trends analyst F. William Engdahl, to...