Not all college students are willing to live on cold pizza, ramen noodles and greasy takeout. So to satisfy palates that lean more gourmet than grub, Latto and several friends organized a co-op in which fancy cheeses from a nearby Connecticut farm are delivered each week to the Middletown campus and distributed to students, many [...]
Archer Daniels Midland Co., the world’s largest grain processor, posted a 37 percent increase in fiscal third-quarter profit as food-ingredient demand climbed. Net income rose to $578 million, or 86 cents a share, in the three months through March, from $421 million, or 65 cents, a year earlier, the Decatur, Illinois-based company said today in [...]
Last year, the Corn Refiners Association decided that the term “high fructose corn syrup” just didn’t have same catchy ring to it as “sugar.” The solution: re-brand HFCS as “corn sugar” and launch a marketing blitz to educate the public about the wonders of this freshly named, all-natural product. Now sugar farmers are fighting back [...]
