Louis Dreyfus Company has acquired grains and oilseeds processing, storage and trading activities in Hungary and Poland from rival agricultural commodity merchant Bunge Global, fulfilling conditions Bunge needed to meet to get approval of its merger with Viterra.
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Illegal Brazilian soybeans sold on global markets
Multinational companies indirectly buy crop grown on illegally leased tribal lands as issue causes division and conflict
PASSO FUNDO, Brazil (Reuters) — Farm co-operatives in Brazil that supply some of the world’s biggest multinational agricultural firms are buying soybeans grown illegally on Indigenous reservations in the country, according to tribal leaders and court records. This comes despite the companies’ public pledges to respect the land rights and resources of Indigenous peoples. The […] Read moreLouis Dreyfus breaks ground on Sask. pea protein facility
The province’s producers grow half of Canada’s pea acres — 1.7 million of the nation’s 3.2 million acres planted this year
The pea protein industry in Western Canada is about to have a new player. Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) broke ground on its Yorkton pea plant June 25. The facility will focus on pea protein isolate and represents an effort from the company to gain market share in pulse products. Healthy demand for pea protein has […] Read more
Louis Dreyfus plans pea protein plant in Sask.
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Louis Dreyfus Co. will build a pea protein production facility in Yorkton, Sask., as it invests in plant-based protein as part of a push to diversify its agricultural commodity activities. The company will build the facility at its existing industrial complex in Yorkton and aims for it to be ready by […] Read more
Feds should step up and buy Viterra
Just four companies known as the ABCD group control 90 percent of the world grain trade, and the B in this group is about to get much bigger. B is for Bunge, which has announced it is buying Viterra. The other ABCD companies are Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus. Viterra, a subsidiary of […] Read more
