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Archer Daniels Midland Company announced that it has selected Erlanger, Ky., as the site for its new information technology and support center. The center, which will open in the second half of 2015, will be located on the same campus as ADM’s WILD Flavors Erlanger offices.

Everyone knows the nation’s colleges and universities compete on the football field and basketball court. But did you know they also compete in the R&D lab?

Randy Smith, chairman of the Board of Directors of Tree Top, Inc., one of Washington state’s largest private companies and the nation’s 100th largest agricultural cooperative, announced the hiring of Keith Gomes as the company’s new president and CEO.

JBT Corporation a global technology solutions provider to the food processing and air transportation industries, purchased the assets of Wolf-tec, Inc.

The Hershey Company announced that it has completed the purchase of The Allan Candy Company, a leading North American manufacturer of quality confectionery products based in Ontario, Canada.

French Toast Crunch disappeared from grocery stores shelves in 2006. Since then, fans of the sweet cereal have petitioned General Mills to return the product to the marketplace.

Trudy Rautio, president and chief executive officer of Carlson, has been elected to the Cargill Board of Directors.

If Taka Yamaguchi has his way, athletes competing in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be eating organic—an ambitious plan that more than 100 of Japan's top grocery retailers, food importers and distributors learned about at a recent Organic Trade Association (OTA) sponsored seminar in Japan.

Hershey is looking at replacing the high-fructose corn syrup in some of its products with sugar. Will Papa, chief research and development officer at The Hershey Co., told The Associated Press the company uses a mix of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup in its products but that it is "moving more toward sugar." "We take into account what consumers want. And consumers are telling us between the two, they prefer sugar," Papa said.

Archer Daniels Midland Company outlined a comprehensive strategy to grow returns and economic value added (EVA) by setting the competitive standard for the industries in which it operates and by implementing a balanced capital allocation framework that includes an increase in the company’s dividend payout ratio.