Out of the Shadows By Jonathan Kingsman https://shepherd.com/book/out-of-the-shadows https://shepherd.com/book/out-of-the-shadows Amazing book about the grain

Out of the Shadows By Jonathan Kingsman https://shepherd.com/book/out-of-the-shadows https://shepherd.com/book/out-of-the-shadows Amazing book about the grain markets and how they have changed over the last 40 years. "Once shadowy figures, grain merchants have now come out of the shadows. Almost everything that you eat or drink today will contain something bought, stored, transported, processed, shipped, distributed or sold by one of the seven giants of the agricultural supply chain. The media often refers to them as the ABCD group of international grain-trading companies, with ABCD standing for ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus. The acronym, though, ignores the other three giants of the food supply: Glencore, COFCO International and Wilmar. Together, they handle 50 percent of the international trade in grain and oilseeds. In this book’s series of exclusive and unprecedented interviews, CEOs and senior traders from these seven giants describe in their own words how the agricultural markets are changing, and how they are adapting to those changes." The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket By Benjamin Lorr https://shepherd.com/book/the-secret-life-of-groceries https://shepherd.com/book/the-secret-life-of-groceries Five years of research really explains large swaths of our food system and how it changes what we eat. You might like these as well: The best unexpectedly enthralling books about seemingly boring things https://shepherd.com/best-books/good-books-about-seemingly-boring-things https://shepherd.com/best-books/good-books-about-seemingly-b... The best books that make sense of how globalization broke down, and what happens next https://shepherd.com/best-books/globalization-breaks-down-what-happens-next https://shepherd.com/best-books/globalization-breaks-down-wh... *Features The Big Rig, a book about the American trucking industry and it's breakdown Some good ones in there :)