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Sep 17, 2015

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Oscar Mayer releases Sizzl dating app

By Diego Flammini, Farms.com

Most people have an unofficial set of criteria when trying to find a suitable partner for a relationship.

These qualifications could include any of the following:

Educated
Good sense of humour
Family oriented
Career driven
Down to Earth
Likes to be physically active
Likes bacon!

Online Dating

While the enjoyment of bacon may seem like an insignificant trait, Oscar Mayer’s new dating app, Sizzl, makes it the forefront for love.

Part of the sign up process involves a bacon-themed questionnaire that requires users to say the kind of bacon they enjoy and whether they prefer bacon crispy or chewy.

"In love, as it is in bacon, it's important to be discerning when selecting your perfect match and to never settle for less than the best," said Eric Dahmer, marketing director at Oscar Mayer in a press release. “We’re thrilled to give our true bacon lovers the chance to find each other and potentially meet their soulmates, in life and in bacon.”

The app works like many dating operations where users create a profile, upload photos and sift through people in their area.

It works similar to popular dating app Tinder, where users swipe to the left or right depending if they like what they see or not. Should someone like the profile they’re looking at, they hold down a “sizzle” button. The longer the button is held, the more attracted they are to the person and their profile.

The app is free for anyone who has an iPhone 5 or newer.

Video: Is China Buying US Soybeans + USDA Nov 14th Crop Report could be “Game Changing”

After a week of a U.S./China trade truce, markets/trade is skeptical that we have not seen a signed agreement nor heard much from China or seen any details. There are rumors that China is buying soybean futures & not the physical. Trust in Trump?
12 MMT of U.S. soybean purchases by China by year-end is better than 0 but we all need to give it more time and give it a chance to unfold. China did lower the tariffs on Ag and is buying U.S. wheat and sorghum.
U.S. supreme court could rule against Trumps tariffs, but the Trump administration does have a plan B.
U.S. government shutdown is now the longest in history at 38 days.
But despite a U.S. government shutdown we will be getting a USDA November crop report next Friday and it could be “game changing.” If the USDA provides a bullish surprise with lower U.S. corn and soybean yields and ending stocks that are lower than expected both corn and soybean futures will break out above their ceilings at $4.35/bu and $11.35/bu respectively.
The funds continued their selling in live and feeder cattle futures on continued fears that the Trump administration want to lower U.S. beef prices. The fundamentals have not changed, only market psychology has.
Stocks markets continue to worry about a weak U.S. job market, but you can blame ChatGPT for that. In the future, we will have a more efficient, productive and growing economy with a higher unemployment rate until we have more skilled AI workers.
After 34 new record highs in the S & P 500 and 124 new records in the NASDAQ in 2025 we are back to a correction and investor profit taking as AI valuations may have gotten too stretched near-term ahead of NVDA’s 3rd quarter earnings announcement on Nov. 19th. But this is not an AI bubble.
75% of Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk!
It has rained in South America in the last 7 days, but both the American and European models agree that Central Brazil remains dry in the next 14-days!

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