Southeastern Grocers, parent company to BI-LO, Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores, has committed to converting 100% of its private label eggs to cage-free during 2017, and targeting the expansion of that commitment to the remainder of eggs sold ...
Tags: Southeastern Grocers, BI-LO, Winne-Dixie, Harveys stores, cage-free policy
Daily Harvest, a subscription-based service that delivers whole superfood smoothies is releasing three new smoothies to its 14-flavor lineup. Launched in fall 2015, Daily Harvest packs clean, unrefined ingredients into single-serving cups ...
Canada-based food manufacturing company Premium Brands has entered into agreement to acquire Montreal based C&C Packing and affiliate Premium Meat Packers for $146m, in a cash-and-share deal. The transaction, which is subject to ...
Tags: Premium Brands, C&C Packing, Aquisition, Premium Meat Packers
Functional printing will be a big focus at global printing trade fair drupa in May. The European Specialist Printing Manufacturers Association will host a pavilion dedicated to functional and industrial printing, with member companies ...
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WASHINGTON (FERN's Ag Insider) - This week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $24 million grant to Cornell University, funding a global wheat research group, known as Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat. The aim is to develop new ...
Tags: Stem-Rust Disease, Wheat
Bellucci and its parent company Certified Origins, headquartered in Grosseto, Italy, is offering a solution in the form of the Bellucci App, which traces any bottle of Bellucci EVOO back to the mill where it was produced and the area in ...
Tags: Bellucci, Bellucci App, Trace-to-Source Technology, EVOO
Global Artichoke Company Cynara is introducing several types of preserved artichokes to the US market in a move that will create new culinary opportunities for professional and home chefs. The new products include Crowns, which are intend ...
Tags: Cynara, Artichokes, Natural foods
In February, Brazil recorded corn exports of 5.37 million tons. According to data from the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, this is almost five times higher than exports for February 2015, which stood at 1.10 million ...
Tags: Corn Export, Corn
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 ...
With the soybean harvest getting under way in Brazil, analysts are getting a clearer picture of whether the forecast record-setting crop will hit the century mark of 100 million tonnes despite hot and dry weather in Mato Grosso and ...
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in gluten-free ingredients provider Harvest Innovations. ADM's WILD Flavors and Specialty Ingredients business unit president Vince ...
Tags: ADM, ingredient needs
Dutch-based life sciences company DSM Food Specialties has gained validation for its testing tool Delvotest T, which helps detect up to 27 antobiotic residues in raw milk and dairy ingredients such as milk powders. A report published by ...
Tags: Dairy Products, Testing Tool
Thanks to tireless promotion by top Chinese leaders, the country's railway industry has seen another year of good harvest in overseas markets in 2015, culminating in the launch of a railway project in Asia and the start of another in Europe ...
Blumberg Grain, a US-based food security company, opened its command and control center, as part of the government of Egypt's Shouna Development Project. The launch, which was attended by VIP guests and dignitaries, took place onsite at ...
Tags: Blumberg Grain, a US-based food security company, Agriculture
Freska Produce International is expanding its avocado reach with its purchase of California avocado packer, Harvest Time Produce. Freska, already a global leader in Mangos, with this entry into the prestigious California Avocado program ...
Tags: Freska Produce, avocado packer, Agriculture