Costco has broken ground on a $300m poultry processing plant in the US state of Nebraska. Dubbed the Lincoln Premium Poultry facility, the project which will be built in Fremont is Costco’s first-ever chicken processing plant. ...
RCMA Group is investing £25m to build a new rapeseed processing plant in Atherstone on Stour, near Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK, creating more than 30 local jobs. The new facility will be operational in the autumn of 2017 to ...
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A new Apple data powered entirely by renewable energy will allow its excess heat energy to be used to keep local homes warm, a report by Macworld says. Data centres generate a great deal of excess heat, and are generally not regarded as ...
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Delicato Family Vineyards (Delicato) has introduced Earth Wise Vineyards Red Wine Blend, its first three-liter bag-in-box wine made with organically grown grapes from Spain. Earth Wise Vineyards Red Wine Blend is certified organic by the ...
Land O'Lakes has acquired Vermont Creamery, a creamery and artisanal cheese and butter-maker in Websterville, Vermont, US. Vermont Creamery Co-Founders Bob Reese and Allison Hooper and Land O'Lakes, Inc. President and CEO Chris Policinski ...
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New Zealand exporters will soon be allowed to send chilled meat to China under a new agreement signed by the two countries. Significant revenues are expected to be made by the New Zealand meat sector following a Memorandum of Cooperation ...
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Glanbia Co-op has proposed to create a strategic joint venture named Glanbia Ireland encompassing Glanbia Ingredients Ireland, Consumer Products & Agribusiness. Glanbia Co-op also proposes a €100m “spin-out” of Glanbia ...
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Morrisons is starting a search for the best local food producers who can help to feed the nation, as a new report calls for the UK to be more self-sufficient in food production and new consumer research shows an increasing appetite from ...
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The major problems facing China's agricultural sector are structural ones, mainly on the supply side, according to the document by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. The document calls for ...
Lundberg Family Farms has partnered with a trusted network of Thai rice farmers to launch Thai Hom Mali Jasmine Rice in the US. As a leader in sustainable farming practices, Lundberg Family Farms is proud to work with Thai Organic & ...
Dieffenbach's Potato Chips is launching new brand Uglies to help reduce food waste and save money. The firm is in its third year at the PA Farm show and and the impact it is having on growing our Central PA business has been tremendous, ...
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Muller Milk & Ingredients has confirmed that it will go ahead with plans to invest £60m to upgrade its network of fresh milk and ingredients dairies in Britain. The dairy network upgrade is expected to create nearly 160 jobs. As ...
Swiss dairy company Emmi has agreed to acquire US based goat’s milk processor Jackson-Mitchell for an undisclosed sum to expand its international goat’s milk network. Jackson-Mitchell does its goat milk products business under ...
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Monsanto announced that it has reached a new global licensing agreement with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for the use of the novel CRISPR-Cpf1 genome-editing technology in agriculture. The CRISPR-Cpf1 system represents an ...
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Indian dairy firm Verka has commenced operations at its new dairy and ice cream plant built with an investment of INR320m ($4.7m) in Punjab state. Dubbed as the Verka Bathinda Dairy and located in Bathinda, the dairy and ice cream unit ...
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