Wheat’s 11% Jump Just Pushed This Index’s Grain Score Into New Territory
This week's Input Cost Index climbed again, and grain is doing most of the work.
For the first time since we launched this index, the...
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Wheat’s 11% Jump Just Pushed This Index’s Grain Score Into New Territory
This week's Input Cost Index climbed again, and grain is doing most of the work.
For the first time since we launched this index, the...
Kill Your Ideas Faster to Optimize Your Innovation Pipeline
By Wiles Kase, Engagement Leader at Clareo, and Justin Kanthak, Lesaffre
Key takeaways:
Reported hit rates (50%+) are vanity metrics. The real number is 5...
Food Exec Brief: El Niño Threatens Wheat Supply, Walmart Expands Rollbacks 53%, and Protein...
Welcome to this week's Food Exec Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for food and beverage manufacturing leaders. This week, we're covering:
The Met Office...
General Mills Repriced Two-Thirds of Its Portfolio and Still Lost Volume. Here’s What’s Really...
Key takeaways:
General Mills hit its elasticity targets on roughly 90% of its price investments and still closed fiscal 2026 with volume down a...
Why 24/7 Food Plants Need Edge-to-Cloud MES, Not Pure Cloud
By Hayden Foot, Senior Product Manager at Rockwell Automation
Key takeaways:
Pure cloud MES introduces latency that puts high-speed, deterministic food production lines at risk,...
4 Places AI Cuts the Compliance Paperwork for Small Food Manufacturers
By Alex Uspenskyi, Founder, IONI
Key takeaways:
AI's true value in food safety compliance is clerical rather than judgment-based. It’s drafting HACCP plans for review,...
Grain Costs Sit One Point From Elevated in This Week’s Input Cost Index
This week's Food Industry Executive Input Cost Index eased slightly, and freight gets the credit. Three of the index's other signals just got tighter.
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