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Today’s Top Supply Chain and Logistics
News from WSJ
Delivering up-to-the minute news, analysis, interviews and
explanatory journalism on logistics, supply-chain management, ecommerce and more
By
Paul Page
Oct. 24, 2017 6:53 a.m. ET
Big farms in the U.S. are getting bigger than ever, and that’s overhauling the economic
landscape for agriculture. In a steady expansion through years of up and down cycles, operations
counting many thousands of acres and millions of dollars in crop sales have become a dominant
force in farming, the WSJ’s Jacob Bunge reports, squeezing out small operators and pressing
farm-supply retailers and grain companies with their buying power. Only 4% of U.S. farms
produce $1 million or more in annual sales, and those sites now produce two-thirds of the
country’s agricultural output. The big operators are using their scale make farming more efficient
and minimize risk, while managing vast acreage that can fill thousands of tractor-trailers a year.
The growth of such farms is restructuring traditional supply chains built over decades around
farmer-owned cooperatives. Instead, large farmers often seek to buy chemicals and materials
from suppliers with direct links to manufacturers, and increasingly handle grain storage and sales
themselves.
Hasbro Inc. is trying to redirecting its supply chain to find customers ahead of the holidays.
The moves come as the financial woes at Toys “R” Us Inc. casts uncertainty over Hasbro’s
distribution of Nerf guns and Disney Princess dolls and other toys to the retailer, the WSJ’s Paul
Ziobro reports, with suppliers wary of committing inventory to a customer they fear will start
closing stores once the holiday season ends. Toymakers are among many suppliers that are
exerting increasingly tough delivery and payment terms on storeowners as the financial fallout
from e-commerce hits traditional brick-and-mortar retailers. Hasbro says the impact of the Toys
“R” Us bankruptcy could be softened by the broa...