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Grain & Oilseed Milling
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Baking TV show to use Ardent Mills flour
Ardent Mills, flour milling and ingredient company, is the flour supplier for Food Network Canada’s The Big Bake. The Big Bake is a baking competition series with themed Halloween, holiday and spring episodes. In each episode, three professional baking teams…
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French company, Axereal, acquires Cargill’s malt business
Axereal, France’s largest grain cooperative, announced the acquisition of Cargill’s malt business on behalf of its subsidiary, Boortmalt. This acquisition makes Boortmalt the world’s leading player in the production of malt. “This acquisition meets our two strategic objectives: Firstly, to…
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A grain revival
For a long period, bread remained unchanged. Now processors are tasked with using specialty grains to add nutritional value while keeping labels clean for consumers
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Canadian food processing outlook
FCC Ag reported that global demand is growing, especially for potato products and red meat. Potato processors will have to wait for the 2019 crop will provide better margins, red meat processors are seeing uncertainty due to trade tensions, while…
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Ardent Mills releases sustainability report
Ardent Mills, flour-milling and ingredient company, has released its annual Sustainability Report for Fiscal 2019. The report is available for download here. “Our sustainability pillars focus on agriculture, operations, procurement and transportation,” said Dan Dye, CEO of Ardent Mills. “We…
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Grow the value-added food sector to capitalize on its untapped potential: Senate committee
Canada should expand the value-added food sector by improving regulations to allow for the expansion of international trade of processed food products, investing in innovation, and reducing the barriers to growth inside its borders, a Senate committee said. Currently, only…
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Agri-food exporters want CETA to live up to its commitments
July 15, 2019, Ottawa – Brian Innes, President of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) today issued the following statement as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to meet with European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker…
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Ontario invests in research for crop productivity
The Ontario government invested $1.3 million into research for developing new practices and on-farm solutions for fruit, vegetable and field crop farmers to prevent or control costly crop diseases and pests and improve production practices. “We know plant diseases can…
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Ardent Mills acquires grain elevator
Denver, Colo. – Ardent Mills, flour-milling and ingredient company, announced it has further invested in organic capabilities and The Annex by Ardent Mills through its acquisition of a grain elevator in Klamath Falls, Ore. The elevator, which is in close…
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Research finds that cornstarch make products sustainable and ‘green’
At the 2019 BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and AgTech in Des Moines, Iowa, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist Gordon Selling reported on his group’s use of steam-jet cooking and other processing methods to create a starch-vegetable-oil-based complex with…
