Jonathan Kingsman > Quotes

“You can’t be in the agriculture supply chain without assets. Margins are now so thin on straight trading and marketing, you need to make most of your money from logistics, storage, port, and processing activities and not from trading or marketing.”
― Jonathan Kingsman, Commodity Conversations: An Introduction to Trading in Agricultural Commodities

“Further reading: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production, by Vaclav Smil Salt, Sugar and Fat, by Michael Moss Maise for the Gods: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn, by Michael Blake”
― Jonathan Kingsman, Commodity Crops : And The Merchants Who Trade Them

“As people get richer, they eat more meat and fish. This significantly increases cereal and oilseed demand for animal feed – and by quite a multiplier. To raise cattle in a feedlot, you need seven kilos of grain to produce one kilo of beef. (3) If you raise pigs, you need four kilos of grain for one kilo of meat. For poultry, the figure is just over two kilos, and for herbivorous species of farmed fish (such as carp, tilapia and catfish), it is slightly less than two kilos.”
― Jonathan Kingsman, The New Merchants of Grain: Out of the Shadows