Even without embracing the calamities forecast by those most focused on what may happen to climate, the
emphasis is on helping poorer nations cope with meeting food needs, which are expanding in response to population and economic growth.
Recognizing the great success Toyota has achieved in marketing its autos around the world should prompt considerable scrutiny of what its entry might mean into flour milling.
As nine decades in publishing are noted in these pages in 2012, this magazine’s and its publishing company’s commitment to the people and industries it serves will only strengthen.
This year’s proof of how fundamental supply-demand factors are what moves grain prices should be a highly important outcome from the memorable 2011-12 crop year.
The innovations and the new approaches that work with the food trucks do appear to cast doubt on what has been the accepted way to success in food processing.
The decrease in food processing’s share of the food dollar is accompanied by similar, but mostly smaller, declines in the farm share, in packaging, in transportation and in the retail trade.
It is the privately-owned flour milling companies that seem satisfied with building their milling businesses while avoiding anything that smacks of diversification.
The current income situation may test whether improved prices and income alone are sufficient to make wheat once again a favored crop of the nation’s farmers.
The food industry has reason for pride that three of its companies are run by women who ranked in the top three positions on Fortune magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Women” ranking.