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Automated indoor farms are becoming popular near urban centers

Automated Agriculture

Future of food: People, planet and economy

To keep up with the growing world population, agriculture will adopt automation

Jan Beránek

November 20, 2021

Innovation in agriculture is one of the hottest topics due to the industry facing a number of challenges

JBS takes on cultivated meat market with acquisition

November 19, 2021

JBS SA has made its first move into the cultivated meat market. The world’s largest meat producer recently announced that it would make a $100 million investment into cultivated protein and also acquire Spanish Company BioTech Foods SL.

Biotech startup's plant-based food ingredients to save energy, water, land

Biotech startup's plant-based food ingredients born to save energy, water, land

November 19, 2021

Shiru's patent-pending discovery platform combines ML and biofermentation to produce plant-based alternatives to eggs, meat, dairy and gelatin—using a fraction of the land, water and energy of their animal alternatives.

Smithfield hog production is seeing greater efficiency with modern technologies in its feed mills.

Control Systems

Modern SCADA system improves feed mill operations at Smithfield operations in Utah

The mill produces 12,000 tons of animal feed per week, feeding 1.7 million pigs a year

Wayne Labs

November 17, 2021

A new control system for a formerly manually operated plant makes a huge difference in output, efficiency and product quality

Del Monte Foods debuts upcycled certified green beans range

November 16, 2021

Del Monte Foods Inc. has released the industry's first canned vegetable product to be Upcycled Certified by the Upcycled Food Association, the world's only third-party certification program for upcycled food ingredients and products.

Editor's Note

A Continuing Story

Michael Costa

November 9, 2021

Hello! I’m Michael Costa, the new editor-in-chief at FOOD ENGINEERING.

New cyber insurance agencies can help shield you from financial ruin caused by hack attacks, but they can also be an important member of a processor’s cybersecurity team

Cybersecurity Protection

Cyber insurance: What it can do and what it can’t

New cyber insurance agencies can help shield you from financial ruin, but they can also be an important member of a processor’s cybersecurity team

Wayne Labs

October 30, 2021

Recently, a relatively new source of cybersecurity help comes from cyber insurance providers. Cyber insurance can help save a company from financial ruin, besides helping with a defense plan

Manufacturer News

Food and beverage processors take two approaches to alternative energy

Industry explores new ways to decrease energy usage

October 26, 2021

Food and beverage companies have been taking action to decrease their energy usage footprints in several ways. They can be active or passive in nature.

To produce top-notch olive oil today and market it around the world requires a level of automation that spans the entire supply chain

Digital Transformation

Digital transformation offers food manufacturers a giant reset button

Manufacturing execution systems support revenue growth while promoting resilience and sustainability in times of disruption and market uncertainty

Keith Chambers

October 22, 2021

Digital operations management technologies provide consumer packaged goods manufacturers the ability to calibrate their response to fluctuating market and supply conditions.

Checking the viscosity of chocolate and entering it into the SPC system

Legacy software

Five signs it’s time to upgrade your legacy SPC system

Not only can a new system provide you with more actionable data, it'll be more secure

Jason Chester

October 14, 2021

Rather than being fat, dumb and happy with that old, dated SPC system, instead become agile, intelligent and ready to pursue the competition with the added intelligence you get from a modern statistical process control system.

Cargill Invests in its Cocoa Supply Chain

Going for Gold(fish): Inside The Campbell’s Company’s $160M Cracker Plant Expansion

Exploring the Impact of Women Engineers on the Food Industry

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