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WEEK OF APRIL 1

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Soft red winter wheat
was emerging from
dormancy across
several major producing
states. Some states
will provide updated
condition ratings at
the end of March with
the U.S.D.A.'s initial
composite rating for
the winter wheat crop,
including ratings from
each state, due April 7.

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cost competitive basis with the
other bakeries in our system.
We are committed to ensuring
that there will be no change in
the quality, freshness or availability in the Entenmann's products consumers have come to
know and love." B.B.U. said it
will continue to operate a sales
center, distribution facility and
thrift store at the Bay Shore location, and house corporate functions, including research and development, I.T. and marketing.

Flatbreads to debut
at Panera Bread
ST. LOUIS - An Indian naanstyle flatbread is rolling out at
Panera Bread Co. in May. Made
with 20% whole wheat flour and
Greek yogurt, the flatbreads will
be used in sandwiches prepared
on the chain's grills. To make the
flatbreads, Panera bakers roll
the dough with a docking wheel
to prevent pockets of air from
forming so the bread remains
soft and flexible. "We were in
a process of thinking about different sandwiches about a year
or two ago, and we realized we
needed something that felt a
little lighter with the breads, in
a bread sense," said Scott Davis,
executive vice-president and
chief concept and innovation officer, at the company's investor
day on March 25.

Partnership seeks to
boost wheat yields
CIUDAD OBREGÓN, MEXICO
- The newly formed International Wheat Yield Partnership
aims to increase wheat yields by
50% by 2034. It will seek to stimulate new research, amplify the
output from existing programs
and make scientific discoveries
available to farmers in developing and developed nations.
Groups that initiated the I.W.Y.P.
include the United States Agency
for International Development
(USAID); the United Kingdom's
Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council; the
International Maize and Wheat

Improvement Center; and the
Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food of Mexico. The
partnership was launched at the
Borlaug Summit on Wheat for
Food Security held March 25-28
in Ciudad Obregón.

Golden Growers
focus on future
MOORHEAD,
MINN.
-
"Despite a retreat in highfructose corn syrup prices,
corn
refining
remains
profitable," Jason Medhaug,
chairman of Golden Growers
Cooperative, told attendees of
the 1,585-member cooperative
meeting in Moorhead last week.
He said management will focus
on the future despite lower corn
and sugar prices that in part
trimmed the cooperative's 2013
net income by 15% from 2012.
Other speakers told attendees
corn prices looked about flat for
2014 and refined sugar prices,
though down sharply from
recent highs, were trending
slightly higher for 2015. Golden
Growers owns 49% interest
in ProGold Limited L.L.C.,
with 51% owned by American
Crystal Sugar Co. ProGold's wet
corn milling plant in Wahpeton,
N.D., is leased to Cargill, and
produces mainly HFCS.

Taco Bell debuts
breakfast menu
IRVINE, CALIF. - Taco Bell
Corp., a subsidiary of Yum!
Brands, Inc., last week began
the nationwide roll-out of a new
breakfast menu. More than 5,500
Taco Bell restaurants across the
United States now will
open at 7 a.m. or
earlier, offering
13 new menu
items that include the Waffle
Taco, A.M. Crunchwrap and Cinnabon Delights.
Additionally, the fast-food chain
will offer several varieties of burritos and grilled tacos on warm
flour tortillas, as well as a sausage flatbread melt. MBN
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