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Whetstone Distribution Partners with DecisionNext to Enhance Protein Price Forecasting
SAN FRANCISCO, California – January 20, 2026 – DecisionNext, the leading AI platform that helps companies optimize commodity buying and selling decisions, today announced …
Read Article3 Ways Food Retail Must Think About Technology
It’s not lost on him that all of this experience makes him uniquely qualified to be the Chief Commercial Officer of the Food Marketing Institute. Mark’s recent interview …
Read Article3 Questions to Ponder for the Visionary Meat Executive
Listen to the full interview: 1. How do you look beyond singular transactions and capture value by aligning up and down the value chain? Customer relationships and …
Read ArticleWhat if Amazon and Cargill had a business model baby?
Given Amazon’s recent grocery expansion news and the 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods, forward thinkers should consider how traditional business models might be outdated. …
Read ArticleI see what you did there, Netflix.
The secret trick behind this all too common occurrence has bolstered Netflix to be able to compete and thrive in the modern era of streaming services. And there’s a …
Read Article3 provocative quotes on the machine learning breakthrough in beef
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Read ArticleCoffee Machine Learning
Neither. It’s actually a decision based on my ability to predict whether I am going to get a drinkable beverage from my local coffee shop. Here’s the problem: the manager …
Read ArticleAlign Man, Machine,...& the Moon
Did you see the movie First Man about NASA’s mission to land a man on the moon? It relates the tumultuous journey that starts with JFK declaring his goal of “landing a …
Read ArticleTurning Thermal Coal to Copper? Why the Metrics Matter
There would seem to be a good number of reasons not to do this. Firstly, in a diversified mining company everyone who doesn’t work in the copper division suddenly feels …
Read ArticleThe Commodity Business in Food and Agriculture is Over
the era of the commodity business is over. That’s now changing for one simple reason: the rapid evolution of high powered analytics tools tailored to the food and ag …
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