Restaurant and bars are finally--finally--staffing up. It's taken a lot more money and benefits to get there, and labor costs show no signs up letting up in 2023. w/ Lauren Weber wsj.com/articles/resta…

The insanity of Arizona. 100,000 homes slated to be built on raw desert land that has little groudwater left to support anything, let alone 700,000 more people. latimes.com/environment/st…

“Teravalis is seen…as a crowning achievement in a booming real estate market, but it also represents the intensifying challenge in Arizona and other fast-growing Southwestern states: to build huge mixed-use projects in an era of water scarcity.” nytimes.com/2022/12/27/bus…

“The nascent US industry is already facing mounting challenges from supply-chain struggles and surging costs, including interest rates, prompting the developers behind a separate project near Massachusetts to seek a delay in planning for the venture.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“We expect one-third of the world economy to be in recession…Why? Because the three big economies — US, EU, China — are all slowing down simultaneously.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“The unresolved fears have migrated trade away from the West Coast to East Coast and Gulf ports. That has benefited East Coast warehouses as well as the two large railroads that service the ports seeing the boom in containers, CSX and Norfolk Southern.” cnbc.com/2023/01/03/sup…

""It is astonishing that despite all the sanctions, this supply chain still works,” said Michael Wurmser, the founder of Norge Mining. “It underlines the importance of those rare earths and shows how much we depend on them."" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"The idea behind agrivoltaics is simple: use the “empty” space beneath solar panels to grow stuff...During this legislative session, two Colorado senators plan to introduce a bill that could position the state as a leader in agrivoltaics research." coloradosun.com/2023/01/22/col…

"The rule requires USDA’s National Organic Program certification for all imported organic food, increases certifications of more businesses in the supply chain and boosts authority for inspections, record-keeping, traceability & fraud prevention practices" apnews.com/article/health…

"Across the agriculture value chain, it is vital to establish trust...Utilizing a blockchain-based solution provides greater transparency around the data and, more importantly, protects the use of that data upstream and downstream." #blockchains forbes.com/sites/forbeste…

"Steep cuts in federal funds for agriculture research over the last 20 years threatens farming's fight against climate change." npr.org/2023/01/22/115…

Deere's CTO: “We really have been focused on trying to solve connectivity, globally. We look at the burgeoning efforts that are happening in low Earth orbit satellites as an example – potentially – for us to start to solve some those connectivity issues." cnb.cx/3Zaydzw

"Agribusiness heavyweights...and a crop of startups are closing in on some solutions to reduce the use of conventional fertilizers, including turning to microbes, recycled organic waste and other lower-emission and chemical-free substitutes." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"As deep winter sets in and Russia presses assaults on Ukraine’s infrastructure, the crisis is worsening. Food shortages are already being exacerbated by a drought in the Horn of Africa and unusually harsh weather in other parts of the world." #Ukraine️ nytimes.com/2023/01/02/us/…

"Agri-tech startups in India] have the potential to significantly contribute to improving productivity...but fragmented technological infrastructure, high cost of operations, lack of access to data and limited technical expertise, hamper the scale" weforum.org/impact/ai-for-…

"Some of these programs can generate patterns from data that lead to new knowledge and understanding...If agriculture isn’t sufficiently digitized, it will miss the AI train." via Des Moines Register #artificalintelligence #agtech desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/…

"AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. While all regions of the global economy stand to benefit from AI...countries in the Global South will experience more moderate increases due to the much lower rates of adoption" weforum.org/agenda/2023/01…

"Guterres condemned fossil fuel giants for ignoring their own climate science, accusing the oil and gas industry of seeking to expand production despite knowing “full well” that their business model is incompatible with human survival." #ClimateCrisis cnb.cx/3wf4VCR

“While “we need mining,” the process of extracting raw materials for the renewables revolution can’t be “a mad scramble to meet the demands where there’s no consultation with the community”…Otherwise the industry will “lose the social license”” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“One year on, the upheaval caused to world fertilizer markets is seen by the UN as a key risk to food availability in 2023.” bloomberg.com/news/features/…