Agriculture News

The kid from Broken Bone School No. 1 is moving on. Loren Anderson, who has led Pacific Lutheran University onto solid financial ground and into the great world of international studies and service, is retiring.

Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd aims to be among the world's top five giants in upstream and downstream commodity businesses by 2020, doubling its revenue and profit in the next eight years.

A local artist and filmmaker put $4 million into a Manhattan hedge fund - a sophisticated, mostly unregulated investment - and is now at the center of a controversial bankruptcy case.

Shareholders have shaken up the corporate world this spring, voting against executive pay packages at prominent companies such as Citigroup, mall manager Simon Property Group and Charlotte-bound fruit company Chiquita Brands International.

On Wednesday, Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. reported its second quarter earnings and discussed the following topics in its earnings conference call.

Portage County Planning and Zoning Committee, 4 p.m., Conference Room 5, County Annex.

Toronto- SunOpta Inc. announced May 25 that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Canadian natural health products distribution business to an affiliate of Banyan Capital Partners .

Post Foods recorded a slide in second quarter earnings as it struggled with increased competition in the breakfast market from quick serve restaurants, higher ready-to-eat cereal prices, and costs from its spin-off from Ralcorp Holdings.

Investing into Brazil's booming economy has turned another page as foreign companies, especially Japanese firms, move from putting money into the nation's financial industry to buying into the real economy of South America's largest nation.

General Mills has an impressive dividend yield for the income investor. Its estimated earnings growth is on the mark at about 7.2% and would make a nice contribution to an income portfolio.

The firm currently has a "market perform" rating on the stock. Shares of Ralcorp Holdings opened at 65.69 on Thursday.

US baker Flowers Foods has cut its forecast for full-year earnings after a bond issue pushed up the company's interest charges.

A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles.

The Thomasville, Ga.-based baked goods company's profit was down 8 percent in the first quarter, impacted in part by growing ingredient and packaging costs.

The price includes the assumption of $98 million in debt, Golden Valley-based General Mills said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

A sea of black and gold descended in orderly fashion into the Phil Reeves stadium Friday night as the sun was setting on the last days of the Class of 2012.

Cargill Australia is again planning to acquire the fats-and-oils business of Goodman Fielder, a deal the food conglomerate first pursued in 2009 only to have it shot down by regulators.

Santa Muerte, the Angel of Death, is one word to most : "Satanic." But to a group of Angelenos, she is revered as "La Nina," "La Madrina" and "La Madre." John Cadiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on May 23, 2012.

Ralcorp Holdings Inc. on Tuesday reported net earnings of $26.2 million for the three months ended March 31, a drop of 69 percent from $83.3 million during the same quarter last year, the St.

Senesco's SNS01 is a Potent Regulator of Programmed Cell Death and Tumor Growth in Murine Models of Multiple Myeloma BRIDGEWATER, N.J.-- --May 23, 2012 - Senesco Technologies, Inc.