Olam International has acquired a 100% stake in Brooks Peanut Company for $85m. Brooks, which was established in 1959, is based in Samson, Alabama. It is currently the sixth largest peanut sheller in the US. The company processes about ...
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Denmark-based dairy company Arla Foods has opened a new milk powder production facility in Dakar, Senegal, to further its expansion in West Africa. The new plant, which was inaugurated on 17 May, has an annual capacity of 5,000 tons of ...
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US Foods has entered into an agreement to acquire fresh fruit and vegetable processing company Freshway Foods for an undisclosed sum. Freshway Foods also repacks and distributes fresh fruits and vegetables to customers throughout the ...
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Following Fonterra’s recent announcement that it plans to introduce a market-linked organic milk price for its organic milk farmers, the Co-operative has forecast an opening market-linked organic milk price of $9.20 per kg milk solids ...
US-based agribusiness company Monsanto has announced to invest $975m over the next three years to expand its manufacturing site in Luling, Louisiana. The investment will also support the launch of Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System, a seed ...
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Woman rice farmer's yields increase with help from @KelloggCompany Origins program. Marisol's family has been growing rice for several generations in Northeast Spain, the place where the Ebro River meets the Mediterranean Sea. Raised in a ...
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Arla and Dairy Farmers of America agreed to start a joint venture to build a small dairy plant to produce cheddar cheese. The joint venture will have a combined investment of $58m out of which Arla will contribute 20% or $11.6m. The JV ...
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India’s leading automobile manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has entered into dairy business, beginning with milk. M&M has started selling branded milk products under the brand Saboro in Indore, Madhya Pradesh state of India. ...
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Dairy company Agri-Mark is planning to invest $30m in a cheese manufacturing facility in Chateaugay town in New York. The company plans to renovate the roughly 100,000ft2 facility by deploying new cheese vats and other equipment to ...
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Denmark-based dairy company Arla Foods is planning to close fresh milk processing production facility at Hatfield Peverel dairy in Essex in the UK, by the end of July this year, which is likely to result in 200-plus redundancies. ...
The US Senate Agricultural Committee has passed a bill which paves the way for a single national labeling law for food made with genetically engineered ingredients, while doing away with state by state labeling. With this bill, which ...
Good news regarding farm accidents: In 2015, the U.S. saw fewer grain bin entrapments and incidents than it has seen in a decade. In 2014, a whopping 71 confined-space incidents were confirmed, but in 2015 only 47 were reported. ...
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The very first corn of 2016 is going into the ground. In Texas, this week’s weather has allowed farmers to set the planters in the ground and the tractors to ‘blow and go’. Some area farmers have been planting for a week ...
An Australian farmer has struck purple gold selling beetroot juice to a Dubai prince looking for a secret weapon to feed his racing horses. Speaking to The Weekly Times about his lucky turn of events, Victorian farmer Sean Croft said he ...
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US-based agricultural and food company Cargill has opened a $100m modern wet corn milling facility in Devagere in Karnataka state of India. The corn facility is spread over a sprawling 44.5 acres of land with a daily milling capacity of ...
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