PepsiCo, Nestlé, and Campbell’s disclosed five U.S. plant closures in the past two months, covering customers with production ...

Ocean freight rose 5% while soybean prices reached a two-month low. See how grain, beef, dairy, and freight impacted this week’s Input Cost Index.

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Chicken drove the quarter’s protein deals. Hormel agreed to buy Brakebush for about $1.055 billion, and JBS proposed taking full ownership of Pilgrim’s Pride. Intersnack is taking Utz private, at an ...

This FIE Input Cost Index rose this week, up from 139 to 142. Grain prices eased a bit. Corn fell to $4.97 a bushel after USDA’s Grain Stocks report put old-crop corn supplies 35% above last year.

The USDA’s October crop report had a significant impact on corn last Friday. The agency raised its corn crop estimate by 234 million bushels and ending stocks by 282 million, to about 1.85 billion.