Enjoy watching the Cereal Innovators webinar from Wednesday, April 13th, 2022! Join us as we hear from Melanie Bartelme, Associate Director and Global Food Analyst for Mintel Food & Drink, as she talked about "A Year of Innovation in Pasta, Rice, and Noodles for 2021". Some key topics that she discussed during the hour-long webinar included: innovative product launches, the global retail market, a review of pasta, rice, and noodles, trends within the industry and more! Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the NCI Market Update: Weather Edition from Wednesday, April 6th, 2022. This hour long special weather edition featured Daryl Ritchison, Director of the North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network (NDAWN), who discussed global weather projections. Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the Future of Feeding webinar from Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022! Join us as we hear from Mohamed Salah Bouthour, Middle East and Africa Marketing Specialist for the U.S. Grains Council. During his presentation, Mohamed discussed the Tunis Training Center. Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the NCI Market Update from Wednesday, March 16th, 2022. This hour long commodity market update featured Zsolt Vincze, Senior Vice President of R.J. O’Brien & Associates, as he discussed the WASDE report along with the current situation in Ukraine.
Zsolt commented on the hostile situation and how the Ukrainian Agricultural Market will be volatile for some time. Zsolt stated that studies predict that Ukraine’s planting acres will be down by 40%. Zsolt predicts that the diminishing resources will cause the hostile situation to dissolve around Easter. No matter what, Zsolt stated that the lack of grain from Russia and Ukraine will force buyers to get their grain from alternative sources. Zsolt ended his presentation by giving advice to buyers, “Make sure to cover the next three months needs, and then make adjustment accordingly.” Click here to view the video.
Enjoy watching the Cereal Innovators webinar from Wednesday, March 9th, 2022! Join us as we hear from Mr. Bill Patrie, Economic Development Consulting Advisor in Bismarck, ND as he talked about a tried-and-true business development format for community leaders interested in engaging in sustainable business development. This format particularly lends itself to the development of cereal grain-based enterprises.
The webinar will definitely be of interest to cereal grain producers, entrepreneurs, economic developers, and community leaders, to obtain a proven methodology for cereal grain business in rural America. Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the NCI Market Update: Special Edition from Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022. This hour long special edition featured Walter Lanza, Commodity Export Trade Manager for The Scoular Company. During his hour-long webinar he discussed an overview of the Global Freight Market & Supply Chain Challenges. Shipping containers are the building block of global trade. Due to disruptions in the past year, supply chains all over the globe have been affected. As a result, the tight capacity on shipping lines has brought record rates. Walter gave a deep dive on how the market changed in the past year, what we should expect for the upcoming year, and how that affects the agriculture global market. Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the Future of Feeding webinar from Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022! Join us as we hear from Natasha Mortenson, Community Relations and Education at Riverview, LLP. During her hour-long presentation she discussed Riverview, LLP, a dairy-based agribusiness headquartered in West Central Minnesota. Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the NCI Market Update from Wednesday, February 16th, 2022. This hour long commodity market update featured Jeffrey McPike from WASEDA Commodities Inc.. During his presentation he made comments on the just released WASDE report and more! Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the Cereal Innovators webinar from Wednesday, February 9th, 2022! Join us as we hear from Dr. Neil Doty, Business Development Manager at the Northern Crops Institute as he talked about current and future food industry trends that will be instrumental in fostering and expanding cereal grain business opportunities.
This webinar may be helpful for entrepreneurs, economic developers, and community leaders. Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the NCI Market Update: Special Edition from Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022. This hour long special edition featured Jim Peterson, Policy and Marketing Director for the North Dakota Wheat Commission. During his hour-long webinar he discussed an overview of the 2021 durum situation as well as and an outlook for 2022; both in the U.S. and also some perspective on Canada and the world, and more! Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the Future of Feeding webinar from Wednesday, January 26th, 2022! Join us as we hear from Dr. Kalidas Shetty, professor at North Dakota State University, as he talks about the prevalence of food borne pathogens in farm processed meat and poultry products, targeting of natural phytochemical-based antimicrobial feeds to counter food borne pathogens as a safe and cost-effective alternative to synthetic antibiotics and more! Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the NCI Market Update from Wednesday, January 19th, 2021. This hour long commodity market update featured Dr. Robert Johansson, Associate Director of Economics and Policy Analysis for the American Sugar Alliance. During his presentation he made comments on the just released WASDE report and more! Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the Cereal Innovators webinar from Wednesday, January 12th, 2022! Join us as we hear from Dr. Neil Doty, Business Development Manager at the Northern Crops Institute and Dr. Delore Zimmerman, President and CEO of the Praxis Strategy Group. During the webinar the two talked about the “Cereal Foods Manufacturing Start-Up Guide”.
This webinar may be helpful for entrepreneurs, economic developers, and community leaders as the two discussed pertinent topics to successfully launch a cereal foods manufacturing business. Click here to view the video.
Read MoreEnjoy watching the NCI Market Update: Weather Edition from Wednesday, January 5th, 2022. This hour long special weather edition featured Daryl Ritchison who discussed the North American weather projection for 2022 as well as the remaining growing season weather in South America. Click here to view the video.
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