Ardent Mills, the premier flour and ingredient company, announced its new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program and Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) CSR Report. The new program expands on the company’s sustainability initiatives and is part of its continued commitment to positively impact the environment and local communities. 

Trends such as non-GMO, gluten-free, sustainability, and various popular diets, are expanding the use of non-mainstream whole grains and seeds as well as other plant sources.

Ingredion Incorporated, a global provider of ingredient solutions, announced the completion of its rice manufacturing expansion in Banglen, Thailand. The expansion is part of the company’s ongoing investment strategy to support customers globally through the growth of its speciality food ingredients business.

Ingredion Incorporated, a leading global provider of ingredient solutions to the food manufacturing industry, announced that it has entered into an exclusive commercial agreement with Northern Quinoa Production Corporation to globally distribute and market NorQuin's quinoa flours, which will be grown and milled in the Canadian plains.

Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., a leader in science-based approaches to enhancing the quality and nutritional value of crops and food ingredients, announced the US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company two patents for extending the shelf life of whole wheat by minimizing hydrolytic and oxidative rancidity.

Continental Mills, Inc., the maker of premium baking, breakfast and snack brands, including the beloved Krusteaz speed-scratch mixes and others, purchased a 175,000 square foot facility in Effingham, Ill., located adjacent to its existing manufacturing facility in Effingham.

Here are a "bakers' dozen" — 13 — essential ingredients used in commercial baking, drawn from the vast baker’s toolbox that continues to change and evolve at a brisk pace.

Kruse joined ADM in 1993. He has held a variety of leadership positions in the company’s sweeteners and food oils businesses before assuming the role of CEO of Stratas Foods — a 50/50 joint venture between ADM and ACH Food Companies — in 2011.

The combination of brekki’s superior product and the Cedar’s leadership team’s 155+ years of food industry experience means brekki is now positioned to lead this growing market.

This important milestone for The Annex comes shortly after the acquisition of an organic grain elevator in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the Colorado Quinoa™ exclusivity partnership, as well as the Denver RiNo investment to clean and pack specialty grains.