The initiative will promote a “landscape-level” approach, where farmers will be encouraged to rotate between cereal and legumes, and then cover crops that naturally replenish soil nutrients.
The company hopes to use the investment to modernize the U.S. power grid, and meet the rising demand for energy created by the growth of AI data centers.
Although Crown Royal has been produced exclusively in Canada for decades, Diageo announced on August 28 that its Ontario bottling plant would moving its operations to the U.S. in early 2026.
U.S. tariffs have cost John Deere an estimated $300 million so far in 2025, with the company expecting to take another $300 million hit by the end of the year.
The policy change jeopardizes the China operations of some of the most important companies in the semiconductor sector, hailing from two chipmaking powerhouses that are also U.S. allies.