Insights and Stories on Ingredients

Conagra flags price increases to cushion inflation impact

Oct. 7, 2021 at 5:13 pm CDT

Reuters — Conagra Brands said on Thursday it would increase prices again on its frozen meals and snacks to help cushion the blow of higher inflation, after the diversified food maker raised its annual sales forecast and topped quarterly results. Packaged food companies are grappling with inflation as the U.S. […]

Grain World: Opportunities great for Canadian pulses, AGT CEO says

Dec. 3, 2019 at 7:42 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

British food lobby warns of food shortages from no-deal Brexit

Aug. 7, 2019 at 3:01 pm CDT

By Guy Faulconbridge Kate Holton

Cargill quarterly profit drops on trade tensions, U.S. floods

Jul. 11, 2019 at 1:23 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Federal ‘Product of Canada’ food guidelines under review

May. 28, 2019 at 8:13 am CDT

By GFM Staff

New federal standard to expand beer ingredient options

May. 20, 2019 at 5:44 am CDT

More variety in allowable ingredients and more requirements for declarations are now part of the federal rules on what can be called beer in Canada. The federal government on May 1 announced “modernized” beer standards under Canada’s Food and Drug Regulations (FDR) — the rules laying out the requirements to […]

By GFM Staff

Bunge names acting chief as new CEO

Apr. 25, 2019 at 5:16 pm CDT

Reuters — Global grains trader Bunge on Thursday named Gregory Heckman as its chief executive officer, three months after he took the helm in an interim capacity. Heckman, a founding partner of private investment firm Flatwater Partners and the former chief executive of grains trader Gavilon Group, was appointed acting […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. firm partners with James Cameron’s Prairie pulse processor

Jan. 8, 2019 at 7:32 pm CST

CNS Canada — Saskatchewan pulse processing company Verdient Foods has entered into a joint venture agreement with U.S. company Ingredion to expand operations. The organic pea protein fractionation facility at Vanscoy, about 20 km southwest of Saskatoon, has been running since last year and the new agreement will see it […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Nestle, Hershey at odds with farmers over U.S. GMO labeling

Jul. 3, 2018 at 9:40 pm CDT

New York | Reuters –– The world’s top food companies and farmers of crops such as beet sugar are pitted against each other as they lobby the U.S. government over plans to label genetically engineered ingredients. At the heart of the issue is transparency over ingredients used in food. Packaged […]

By Chris Prentice

ADM approach to Bunge a potential U-turn on oilseed strategy

Jan. 22, 2018 at 6:16 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Archer Daniels Midland’s proposed takeover of Bunge could signal a change in the company’s strategy on oilseeds, giving the top U.S. grain merchant a much bigger capacity to crush soy just months after ADM’s CEO said the firm would cut spending on the sector. The potential […]

By Tom Polansek

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