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Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp., a fully integrated provider of crop productivity solutions designed to enable the transition of agriculture towards carbon neutrality, announced the successful completion of its previously announced integration of Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI).

All five G3 port terminals are certified by Green Marine and report performance at or well above the average for the program’s participants.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts that Pakistan will export 4.8 million tons of rice in 21/22 season, almost 30 percent higher than the previous year. “Favorable export conditions are expected to continue as large stocks, competitive export prices, and strong demand from key markets are expected to spur exports further to 4.9 million tons in 2022/23,” USDA said in its ‘Grain: World Markets and Trade’ report published on 12th July.

Grain Craft, the largest independent flour miller in the USA, announced that its parent company has entered into a definitive agreement for Grain Craft to be acquired by Redwood Capital Investments, LLC. Transaction terms were not disclosed.

The latest State of Food Security and Nutrition report shows the world is moving backwards in efforts to eliminate hunger and malnutrition.

Swiss technology group Bühler and Jordanian Al-Hazaa Investment Group celebrated the opening of the Red Sea Flour (Ayla Mill) in Aqaba, Jordan. With the opening of Ayla Mill, powered by Bühler’s state-of-the-art technologies, both companies take another major step in addressing challenges in food security. Products from the new mill will be supplied to customers in Jordan and other countries in the region.

EU exports of cereals are expected to increase by 14% compared to 2021/22, partially offsetting the reduction in global exports being caused by the blockage of Ukrainian sea ports and export restrictions that have been put in place by some exporters, European Commission said in its latest agricultural markets report.

In a major breakthrough, Russia and Ukraine signed separate accords with the UN and Turkey on 22th July to reopen Ukraine's Black Sea ports to grain exports, in an effort to ease an international food crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General Qu Dongyu, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank Group (WBG) President David Malpass, World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley and World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala issued a joint statement calling for urgent action to address the global food security crisis.

The start-up MOA Foodtech is the winner of the European Scale It Up! Innovation Challenge 2022. Following the successful program in the US in 2021, Bühler, Givaudan, Cargill, Puris, and the new partner DIL (Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik) bring their combined innovation power to bear and help plant-based protein start-ups scale up and commercialize in Europe and in the Middle East.

FAO’s (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) forecast for global cereal production in 2022 was raised by 7 million tonnes in July from the previous month and is now pegged at 2 792 million tonnes, according to the new Cereal Supply and Demand Brief. This is still 0.6 percent short of the world output in 2021.

At its main Swiss site in Uzwil, Bühler is investing in reducing its CO2 emissions. To this end, the company is building a test center together with its Belgian partner Vyncke for recovering energy from biomass generated by Bühler’s Application & Training Centers at the site. The facility will also be used for demonstration and testing purposes with customers and for further development of integrated energy efficiency solutions. “The Bühler-Vyncke test center is an important step for us in implementing our sustainability goals and is intended to serve as an example for energy recovery options in food and feed production,” says Johannes Wick, CEO Business Grains & Food at Bühler.