10 Fun Facts About Turkeys | AI's Growing Role in Ag |Fertilizer Demand Expected to Fall
- Michelle Pelletier Marshall
- Nov 25
- 2 min read
Compilation of News from Industry Sources (November 25, 2025)
Editor's Note: Happy Thanksgiving to all our WIA Today readers! For this very agriculture-based holiday, we hope you enjoy the fruits of labor from all the hard-working, resilient farmers who helped bring it to your table. And we, at Women in Agribusiness, are thankful for you -- our community of global women (and their allies) set on empowering, connecting and elevating each other in the sector. Happy Thanksgiving!
Here are a few tidbits about turkeys that could help make conversation during your holiday meal... did you know that you can tell the mental state of a turkey by the color of its head and neck? or that turkeys can see in color, but have poor night vision. Read more fun facts here.
Love it or hate it, use it or not — artificial intelligence (AI) is part of today’s business landscape and set to reshape food and beverage R&D. The use of AI may help product developers predict emerging flavors and textures, while more advanced applications combine knowledge of flavor chemistry, consumer data and machine learning for more detailed and complex results, said Steve Brown, a former executive at Google Deepmind and Intel, who spoke on the topic at IFT FIRST, the Institute of Food Technologists’ (IFT) annual meeting and trade show that was held this past July.
Global fertilizer demand expected to dip in 2026 Global Fertilizer prices are rising and pushing the industry into a new contraction phase, RaboResearch, Rabobank's Market Analytics branch reports. The agency’s Semiannual Fertilizer Outlook states that from April to September 2025, nitrogen and potash fertilizer prices rose by about 15 percent, except for phosphates, which increased by nearly 19 percent.
