Cargill and Owensboro Grain Company, a fifth-generation family-owned soybean processing facility and refinery in Owensboro, Kentucky, have entered into an agreement where it will add the facility to its North American agricultural supply chain business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction, which has been approved by the boards, is subject to regulatory approvals […]
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Posted inProduce News, Southeast
AppHarvest Begins Third Season Of Tomato Shipments
AppHarvest has kicked off its third season of harvesting ahead of schedule with commercial shipments of tomatoes from its 60-acre high-tech indoor farm in Morehead, Kentucky. Martha Stewart, an AppHarvest board member, hosted a press conference for the company’s first harvest of tomatoes in January 2021. Since that time, the company has opened two additional […]
Posted inProduce News, West
Full Harvest Acquires FarmersWeb For Surplus Produce Software
San Francisco-based Full Harvest has announced the acquisition of FarmersWeb, a farm sales and inventory management SaaS provider. Adding FarmersWeb’s software capabilities to its technology pipeline, Full Harvest will be able to speed the delivery of advanced features for its produce suppliers and buyers. “Climate change considerations have become a pressing priority across the agriculture and food industry, […]
Posted inMeat/Seafood/Poultry, National
Salmon Increases Sales Growth In October’s Seafood Market
IRI, 210 Analytics and Elanco have released new data about the trends and analysis on seafood sales. Inflation, COVID and supply chain continue to change shopping and consumption patterns, resulting in unit and volume pressure for seafood, whether fresh or frozen. October seafood inflation showed some improvement over the past year. While prices still rose over […]
Posted inMeat/Seafood/Poultry, Southeast
Logan’s Assumes Production Of Gunnoe’s Sausage
Logan’s Sausage Company, a family-owned business located in Alexandria, Virginia, will be taking over all production and distribution of Gunnoe’s Sausage, a family-owned business operated in Cifax, Virginia, for more than 57 years. “In looking long and hard at the future of Gunnoe’s Sausage, we realized it would be difficult to transition the business to the next generation,” said Cynthia Gunnoe, […]
Posted inMeat/Seafood/Poultry, Southeast
Smithfield’s CFO Nunziata To Retire, Hall Named Successor
Smithfield, Virginia-based Smithfield Foods has announced that CFO Glenn Nunziata will leave the company at the end of the year. The company has named Mark Hall, EVP of finance, as his successor, effective Jan. 1. “We are grateful to Glenn for his invaluable contributions to Smithfield as CFO over the last seven years,” said Shane Smith, president and CEO. “During Glenn’s tenure, we have […]
Posted inMeat/Seafood/Poultry, Southwest
Tyson Foods Hosts Contract Poultry Farmer Advisory Council
Tyson Foods leadership and the company’s Contract Poultry Farmer Advisory Council met Nov. 8-9 to discuss issues most important to the farmers who grow chickens for Tyson. The meeting was held at the company’s headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas, and was the first council meeting after a two-year pause due to enhanced safety protocols during the […]
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Calavo Growers Enters Licensing Partnership With Old El Paso
Santa Paula, California-based Calavo Growers has announced a brand licensing partnership with General Mills as the exclusive manufacturer of the Old El Paso brand of refrigerated guacamole and salsas in the U.S. market. Launched this fall, this line of products features proprietary recipes, available to grocery, mass and convenience channels nationwide. Old El Paso refrigerated guacamole blends come in mild and […]