Milling & Baking News - March 14, 2017 - 62

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X 2007
H. Harry Bresky, who transformed Seaboard Corp. from
a domestic
flour milling
company to an
international
milling company and then
into the second
Bresky
largest vertically integrated
pork processing company in
the United States, died March
11 in Boston. He was 81.
Interstate Bakeries Corp.
has won bankruptcy court
approval to sell shuttered
bakeries in Lakewood, Wash.,
and Sacramento, Calif., for
$10 million.
American Italian Pasta Co.
and its lenders have agreed
to an amendment to the company's credit facility that will
give the Kansas City-based
pasta maker until Dec. 31,
2007, to file fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2006 financial statements.

Patricia A. Woertz, chairman and
chief executive officer of Archer
Daniels Midland Co., and Greg
Page, president and chief operating officer of Cargill, were among
speakers addressing the annual
Agricultural Outlook Forum of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Sara Lee Food & Beverage has relaunched its EarthGrains brand
as a new 100% whole grain bread
line made with all-natural ingredients. In doing so, the company
will trim the EarthGrains line to
three varieties from nine.

Philadelphia Macaroni Co., a
fifth generation grain-based
food processing company, has
acquired Pasta USA, a manufacturer of dry pasta products
located in Spokane, Wash.
Gary Jensen
has been promoted to president of the Roman Meal Co.

Jensen

The Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) of
the U.S. Department of Agriculture halted the planting
and distribution of Clearfield
CL131 long-grain rice after
discovery of an unapproved
bioengineered trait.

X 1987
Realistically addressing the
problems of an agricultural
industry in "disarray" will
require "something stronger
than the belief in free-trade
principles at which much of
the world laughs," Burnell D.
Kraft, corporate vice-president
of Archer Daniels Midland
Co., said in the keynote address at the 58th annual International Technical Conference
and Exposition of the Grain
Elevator and Processing Society in Columbus, Ohio.
The flour milling industry
"will be living with cheap
millfeed prices for the foreseeable future," Cohen E. (Wynn)
Williams II, director of logistics planning, ConAgra, Inc.,
Omaha., Neb., told the annual
soft wheat meeting and crop
forecast in Point Clear, Ala.,
sponsored by the Soft Wheat
Committee of Millers' National Federation.
Canadian Pacific Ltd. disclosed that it is seeking a
buyer for its Maple Leaf Mills
Ltd. business, which has extensive flour milling, baking,
grain merchandising and feed
operations across Canada.
The House last week joined the
Senate in voting to raise the
speed limit on rural interstate

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highways to 65 miles per hour,
a move opposed by the American Bakers Association.
PepsiCo, Inc. has signed a
preliminary agreement with
MF Holdings, a unit of Mrs.
Fields, Inc., Park City, Utah,
to sell PepsiCo's La Petite
Boulangerie Subsidiary to MF
Holdings.
Flowers Industries, Inc.
announced March 13
that its plans to build a
90,000-square-foot bread and
roll plant at Fairfield, Texas,
have been canceled.
Peerless Machinery Corp.,
a Sidney,
Ohio-based
manufacturer,
has agreed in
principle to
acquire Royal
Machinery
Zielsdorf
Corp., Miami,
announced
Robert L. Zielsdorf, president
of Peerless.
David Karnes, 38, senior vicepresident and general counsel
of Scoular Co., Omaha, was
named by Governor Kay Orr
of Nebraska to succeed the
post held by the late Edward
Zorinsky in the Senate.
John T. Landes, vice-president
of production and engineering
for ADM Milling Co., Shawnee Mission, Kas., has retired
after 55 years in the industry.
Newly Weds Foods, Inc. will
begin construction in June on
an $8.5 million manufacturing plant in Springdale, Ark.
The board of directors of Ph.
Orth Co. has elected Steven
B. Smith president and chief
operating officer, succeeding Philip W. Orth, who
was elected chairman of the
board.

Smith

Orth

X1947
March wheat delivery in
Chicago reached an unprecedented high of $3.05 a bu
March 18 in a continuation of
a wild advance.
That unpredictable government actions, not speculation,
are responsible for the recent
extraordinary fluctuations in
grain futures was asserted by
Walter R. Scott, president of
the National Association of
Commodity Exchanges.
Archer-Daniels Midland Co.
has obtained approval to
build four elevators in the
interior of Minnesota at a cost
of $415,132.
Dr. H. Schopmeyer, formerly
of the American Maize Products Co., and former technical
director for
the National
Distillers Products Corp.,
has assumed
new duties as
director of reSchopmeyer
search for the
International
Milling Co.
The 500-cwt capacity mill of the
Farmers' & Merchants' Milling
Co., Glencoe, Minn., was destroyed by fire March 24.
Setting a new 27-year high price
on the Omaha
Grain Exchange, Charles
Bellman, a
wheat buyer
for the Maney
Milling Co.,
paid $3 per bu
for a car of No.
1 dark hard
winter wheat
of 14.60% protein on the Omaha
Grain Exchange.
The theme of the annual
convention of the Millers' National Federation to be held in
Chicago May 6 and 7 will be
"The Milling Industry Looks
to the Future," Herman Steen,
Federation vice-president announced March 24. MBN
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