Archive for May, 2021

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Late last month, the American Association of Railroads announced a partnership with Railinc and a coalition of agricultural shippers that will institute an online portal designed to ensure safety standards are met and to prevent cross-contact with food allergens.

A secure, searchable user interface is expected to go live in late 2021. It will share essential information about previous contents of a rail car, making it easier for shippers to comply with the US Food and ...

WASHINGTON, DC, US — The US Department of Agriculture said China, in three recent transactions, the latest announced May 11, has purchased a total of 3.060 million tonnes of US corn to be delivered in the 2021-22 marketing year, which begins Sept. 1, an indication that China likely will continue to import large volumes of US corn in the coming year.

China’s first purchase of US corn for delivery in 2021-22 was made May 7. The transaction involved 1.36 million tonnes. ...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA — Canadian National Railway announced it has placed an order for 1,000 new generation, high-capacity grain hopper cars that are lighter, shorter and enable CN to move more grain, with less equipment. The order is part of CN’s broader program to build and renew a fleet of 6,000 hopper railcars over the next three years.

CN said the new railcars will be built in a TrinityRail manufacturing plant in Mexico.

The announcement comes as CN continues to make a ...

WASHINGTON, DC, US — Flour production in January-March 2021 totaled 103.634 million cwts, down 4.543 million cwts, or 4.2%, from a revised 108.177 million in the first quarter of 2020, according to data issued May 3 by the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Flour production was down 3.353 million cwts, or 3.1%, from 106.987 million in October-December 2020.

The drop of 4.5 million cwts was the largest year-to-year fall in quarterly flour production in more than ...

The National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) in collaboration with University of the West Indies’s scientists decided to lower the Volcanic Alert Level from “red” to “orange” as a significant decrease of volcano-tectonic earthquakes have been recorded. In addition, no explosions occurred at the volcano since 22 April.

NEMO bulletin cites further:
“An orange Volcano Alert Level means that the volcano may resume explosions with less than twenty-four hours’notice. As a result of this, the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines ...

KIEV, UKRAINE — Ukraine’s grain exports are down 24% to 39 million tonnes so far in the July 2020 to June 2021 season, Reuters reported, citing agriculture ministry data.

Exports included 15.13 million tonnes of wheat, 19.14 million tonnes of corn and 4.12 million tonnes of barley.

So far, traders have used about 86% of the total wheat export quota of 17.5 million tonnes for the 2020-21 marketing season. Traders and the ministry have said it is unlikely exports will reach the ...

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Cargill announced on May 6 that it has started producing AquaXcel feed in its Serang plant with the aim of enabling aquaculture customers to thrive by achieving more sustainable growth.

To commemorate this occasion, a video conference was held that was attended by government officials and Cargill aquafeed customers and partners in Indonesia. Ir. Mimid Abdul Hamid, director of feed from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia, delivered a keynote speech.

“We value the partnership with ...

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Sosland Publishing Co. has announced its spring Purchasing Seminar, to be held virtually June 8 and 9, will be open to the entire food processing industry at no charge.

Additionally, registration is now open for an in-person Purchasing Seminar to be held in October, the first live Purchasing Seminar in more than two years.

“Providing timely ingredient market information is at the core of our mission at Sosland Publishing Co.,” said Joshua Sosland, president of Sosland Publishing. ...