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Your Utility Is Winning More of Every Rate Case. Here’s Where You Push Back.
No one can stop a utility rate case. But organized customers can shrink one, and the share they shrink keeps getting smaller. Here are four numbers to find before the next filing.
This Week, Beef Costs Broke a Streak Procurement Teams Have Been Watching
Boxed beef just posted its second straight weekly decline, as we've been tracking in our Input Cost Index. After months of near-record prices, USDA's...
Food Exec Brief: Natural Color Supply Can’t Meet 2027 Deadlines, Tariff Inflation Has Arrived,...
The 2027 synthetic dye deadline is signed. The natural color supply chain isn't ready. This week we're also covering tariff inflation at 3.3% PCE and a GS1 US survey showing 67% of consumers now avoid entire product categories after a recall.
Frontline Food Plant Workers Are Ready to Embrace AI, It’s Their Managers Still Needing...
Ask executives who's stalling their AI rollout and most point to the plant floor. Infor's Jared Helenic finds the opposite. Operators want the help. The quiet resistance is one layer up.
Why Dairy Plants Need Operator-Centric Automation
Six in 10 dairy executives now rank talent a top strategic priority. Rockwell's Todd Gilliam argues for automating judgment in, not people out, so a newer operator can run the line like a 30-year veteran.
Wheat’s 11% Jump Just Pushed This Index’s Grain Score Into New Territory
Wheat climbed 11% in a week, pushing the Index's Commodity Basket into Elevated for the first time. If you're locking Q4 contracts in the next few weeks, this is the one to read.
Kill Your Ideas Faster to Optimize Your Innovation Pipeline
Your dashboard says innovation succeeds half the time. But your shelf data says six of seven launches die inside two years. Here's the metric that tells a real bet from a padded one.






