When it comes to the opportunities facing the food retail industry, Mark Baum notes, “If you aren’t using technology to start checking off this list, you are behind the eight-ball, and you are at...

With 30+ years in the industry, Bill Rupp knows a thing or two about guiding a meat company into the future. From the floor of the packing plant to his days leading Cargill Meat Solutions & JBS...

What if Amazon and Cargill had a business model baby? Or Kane Beef. Or Simmons Foods. Or any packer with a pulse on the future of food retail.

"Where did the past 3 hours go?"

While Netflix, Google Maps, and Amazon are all exemplary models of machine learning in action in consumer contexts, DecisionNext set out to draw similar examples for the beef industry in its...

Happy New Year! What are you going to do differently in 2019? My New Year’s resolution is decidedly unambitious - I’m going to give up coffee. “Why?”, you ask. Am I trying to emulate the calm of...

Did you see the movie First Man about NASA’s mission to land a man on the moon?

When I worked for a mining company, some of the most eagerly anticipated days in the office were the release of our quarterly production reports. Not as sexy as the financial results– (or...

Innovations like plant based beef, CRISPR gene editing, and meal kit delivery models have the potential to transform the entire food value chain. Forward thinking agribusiness & food executives...

Last month, a friend and I had the chance to go to an AFC South matchup between my hometown team - the Indianapolis Colts - and the Houston Texans. After overcoming an eighteen point deficit in...