Insights and Stories on Flour

Burnett on Markets: Home flour use soars during pandemic

Mar. 31, 2020 at 5:20 pm CDT

It is hard to miss the lack of flour in the grocery aisles lately as consumers stock up on the “essentials.” A number of stores are just rolling out the pallets of flour into the store and they are picked clean by the end of the day. The increased domestic […]

U.S. grains: Wheat retreats from two-month peak

Mar. 26, 2020 at 8:12 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

CBOT weekly outlook: Wheat futures underpinned for now

Mar. 25, 2020 at 7:21 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Lots of flour to go around, millers’ association says

Mar. 25, 2020 at 2:53 pm CDT

By Alexis Kienlen

North America’s millers, bakers scramble to satisfy bread binge

Mar. 23, 2020 at 7:33 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen Rod Nickel

Ardent Mills sells Ontario bakery ingredient plant

Jun. 25, 2019 at 3:11 am CDT

Flour miller Ardent Mills plans to push off further from the sweet baking ingredient business, with a deal to sell its southern Ontario ingredient mix plant. Denver-based Ardent said Monday it closed a deal the previous Friday to sell its Burlington, Ont. plant to U.S. bakery ingredient processor Dawn Foods. […]

By GFM Staff

Glyphosate raises milling questions

Jan. 17, 2019 at 8:10 pm CST

There’s more to the controversy surrounding glyphosate than whether the herbicide is safe to use or not: one miller has said it found oats and other grains treated with pre-harvest glyphosate don’t mill as well as untreated grains. Since 2015, Grain Millers Inc. has had a glyphosate-free policy on oats, […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

J.M. Smucker to sell U.S. baking brands

Jul. 9, 2018 at 5:07 pm CDT

Reuters — J.M. Smucker Co. said on Monday it would sell its U.S. baking business, which includes brands such as Pillsbury, Martha White and Hungry Jack, to private equity firm Brynwood Partners for US$375 million. The deal includes a manufacturing facility in Toledo, Ohio, but excludes the baking business in […]

By Reuters

South Korea lifts suspension on Canadian wheat sales

Jun. 26, 2018 at 3:58 am CDT

Seoul | Reuters — South Korea’s food ministry on Tuesday said it had lifted a temporary suspension on sales of Canadian wheat as it had not discovered any unapproved genetically modified strains during tests on imports. South Korea suspended sales of Canadian wheat last week after Canada announced the discovery […]

By Reuters

Smucker seen considering sale for Robin Hood, other baking brands

Mar. 8, 2018 at 11:29 am CST

Reuters — J.M. Smucker is considering a sale of its baking brands, including Pillsbury and Robin Hood, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The unit could fetch as much as US$700 million (C$902.4 million), Bloomberg reported, citing one of the sources. A final decision to pursue […]

By Reuters

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