Agriculture News

Bakery goods company Flowers Foods Inc. on Friday said its board elected Allen L. Shiver president, effective Jan.

SunOpta Inc. today announced that the SunOpta International Sourcing and Trading Group, in hand with its joint venture partner, has completed the construction of the first natural and organic sesame hulling plant in Ethiopia, operated as Selet Hulling Plc.

Amid mountains of gloomy news for Oregon's wine industry, a one-of-a-kind bright spot is opening Saturday in McMinnville.

It will go down in history as The Great Eggo Disaster of '09. As the nationwide shortage of the popular frozen waffle spreads across the land, kids are crying in their breakfast cereal, mothers are panicking in grocery-store aisles, and family and friends of the San Jose man who invented Eggos are looking up to heaven, wondering what Frank Dorsa ...

Kellogg Co. said Thursday that nearly $482 million has been tendered in response to an offer to swap up to $500 million in aggregate principal of the cereal and snack maker's 6.6 percent interest notes that are due in 2011.

Tembec Inc. expects a gradual improvement in its financial performance after dwindled demand caused the forestry company to hit rock bottom.

Goodman Fielder says the trading outlook for 2009/10 is a a encouraginga a as the food group continues talks with a preferred bidder to divest its commercial industrial business.

The Kellogg Co. says the heavy rains that brought floods to parts of metro Atlanta in September contributed to problems that led to a continuing shortage of its Eggo brand frozen waffles.

BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. said Wednesday that a legal settlement helped push its third-quarter profit down 37 percent.

AWB Ltd has reported a full-year loss as the grains marketing company took write-downs for discontinued businesses and charges for restructuring and legal costs.

Two people were hurt in a grain dryer explosion at the West Central Cooperative in Boxholm shortly before 9 a.m. today.

Two workers were hurt Monday morning during an explosion at a grain elevator in northern Iowa.

Nov 15th 2009 at 9:02PM La Brea Bakery is nominated for a Luxist Award in the Best Bread Bakery category.

Kellogg Co. , the largest US maker of breakfast cereals, says flooding at an Atlanta facility and faulty equipment under repair at a Tennessee factory will cause Eggo waffle shortages through the middle of next year.

Wilson Farms Inc. and Reid Petroleum Corp. on November 6 launched western New York's second E85 fuel station at the Wilson Farms location in Lockport, N.Y. A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the occasion with comments from CEO and president of Wilson Farms Paul Nanula and president of Reid Petroleum Paul Quebral.

Kellogg Company today announced that it has extended the Early Tender Date for its previously announced offer to purchase for cash of up to $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.60% Notes due 2011 until 5:00 p.m. New York City time on November 18, 2009.

After a Newton County, Ga., man had both his legs partially amputated as a result of a railroad car accident, he filed suit in federal court.

Police have identified the driver killed Wednesday in an accident in Lees Summit as Ryan C. Anderson, 32, of Raymore.According to police, Andersons pickup truck crossed the center line in the 2400 block of Lees Summit Road, clipped another truck, veered back into his lane of traffic and rolled before striking a tree.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a fire at Busken Bakery in Hyde Park. Crews were called to the business at 2675 Madison Road around 10:30 a.m. Firefighters were able to get the fire under control after several minutes.

Breaking news in Hinton, Iowa: rural fire crews were called to the Farmers Cooperative.