Ordering Up Optimism

Despite inflation and supply chain turmoil across the food system, Wells Fargo’s chief agricultural economist sees hope on the horizon.

Food Technology Magazine | Article

Dale Buss

Michael Swanson has worked across the United States and around the world in the bowels of the global agricultural and food processing business—from grain-trading pits in Colombia to cheese plants in Wisconsin to rail corridors in Montana. So the chief agricultural economist for Wells Fargo is very familiar with the levers of commerce in the food business, from drought devastation to shipping breakdowns, from planting to processing, from the pricing vagaries of a worldwide market to the meteor-si…

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In This Article

  1. Food Business Trends
  2. Food Retailing
  3. Global Markets and Trade
  4. Supply Chain Management

About the Author

Dale Buss, contributing editor, is an award-winning journalist and book author whose career has included reporting for The Wall Street Journal, where he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize ([email protected]).

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