Insights and Stories on Milling

ADM beats profit estimates but revenue disappoints

Oct. 29, 2020 at 6:57 pm CDT

Reuters — Global grains trader Archer Daniels Midland beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profits on Thursday, helped by strength in its grain milling and nutrition businesses. Still, revenue missed analysts’ expectations and net earnings attributable to the company were 44 per cent lower than a year earlier. Shares were […]

Saudi Arabia completes first phase of flour mill privatization

Jul. 8, 2020 at 5:45 pm CDT

By maha-el-dahan Saeed Azhar Tom Arnold

Burnett on Markets: Home flour use soars during pandemic

Mar. 31, 2020 at 5:20 pm CDT

By Bruce Burnett

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds after multi-year lows

Mar. 24, 2020 at 5:21 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Wheat jumps to one-month top

Mar. 23, 2020 at 5:27 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Panic buying, lockdowns may drive world food inflation

Mar. 23, 2020 at 8:09 am CDT

Singapore | Reuters — Lockdowns and panic food buying due to the coronavirus pandemic could ignite world food inflation even though there are ample supplies of staple grains and oilseeds in key exporting nations, a senior economist at FAO and agricultural analysts said. The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid […]

By Naveen Thukral

Late North American durum faces quality downgrades

Oct. 8, 2019 at 7:11 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Cool and wet conditions delaying harvest operations across North America’s durum-growing regions are cutting into the quality of the crop in both the U.S. and Canada, with widening price spreads likely going forward. “It’s been a challenging harvest,” said Erica Olson, marketing specialist with the North Dakota Wheat […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Paterson stakes Manitoba site for oat processing plant

Oct. 3, 2019 at 9:41 pm CDT

Up to a quarter million tonnes of oats per year could find a new end use as a Winnipeg agrifood company sets up a new oat processing plant near its home base. Privately-held Paterson GlobalFoods (PGF) announced Thursday it will start construction “immediately” on the new plant, on part of […]

By Dave Bedard

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

Flour recall widened to products from 11 loads of wheat

May. 27, 2017 at 2:34 pm CDT

The maker of Robin Hood and other brands of flour is further widening a major product recall to cover products made from 11 loads of Canadian wheat. Ardent Mills and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Saturday announced an expanded nationwide recall to include more varieties and sizes of […]

By Staff

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