Last year showed how dry conditions create the perfect playground for a few yield-robbing pests. The conditions could be ripe again for drought-loving pests to emerge.
Plant-based chicken pluckers are not satisfied with a 1% market share, but they have the difficult task of convincing folks a concoction of pea protein, soy protein, flour, oils and sodium tastes just like chicken.
In its Feb. 9 Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports, USDA lowered global soybean production 8.7 million tons to 363.9 million due to the drought in South America.