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Just 14 months after the production startup of its Hilbert, Wis., facility, Sargento Foods Inc., Plymouth, Wis., announced a groundbreaking on a 40,000-square-foot addition.

Organic Valley, La Farge, Wis., announced what is said to be a first-of-its-kind community partnership that will enable it to become the largest food company in the world to source 100% of its electricity from renewable sources.

Canada-based Saputo Inc. entered into an agreement to acquire Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Co. Ltd. (MG), based in Australia.

The Nunes Co., the Salinas, Calif.-based owner of the Foxy Produce brand, broke ground on a 4-acre parcel in Salinas for its second farmworker housing complex.

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American Trucking Associations (ATA), Arlington, Va., released the findings of his latest report into the driver shortage, warning the trucking industry could be short 50,000 drivers by the end of 2017.

Allen Harim, Seaford, Del., broke ground on the beginning construction phase of a new $22 million state-of-the-art hatchery in Dagsboro, Del.

More than two-thirds of all food discarded in people’s homes in three major U.S. cities was potentially edible, and up to 68 million additional meals annually could potentially be donated to people in need in those cities, according to a pair of new reports released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), New York, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, also based in New York.