Iowa Based Global Processing News Today

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John Thune, S.D., are moving a bill in the Senate, designed to pressure international ocean freight companies to fill freight “containers” with agricultural products instead of sending them back to Asia empty. Rick Brandenburger, president of Richland Innovative Food Crops Inc., Inc., of Breckenridge, Minnesota, says the company is getting only one-third of their needed containers. They want “teeth” in any efforts to fix the problem.

The Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance named Rob Prather of Global Processing as its new board chair and voted in a new member to its board of directors.

The Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance named Rob Prather of Global Processing as its new board chair and voted in a new member to its board of directors.