The Golden Valley-based company's pet food brand is entering a fast-growing refrigerated dog food category later this year with its Love Made Fresh line.
Ettinger was chief executive at the Austin, Minn.-based food company from 2005-16. His second term will last through October 2026 and will partly focus on mentoring likely successor John Ghingo, Hormel's current retail head who is becoming president.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News on Sunday that it would be "economic suicide" and a "terrible mistake" for Iran to disrupt movement through the strait.
Bryan Lewis works in ag retail at the cooperative, selling crop inputs to southeastern Minnesota farmers and buying the finished product: "We help them through that whole thing."
President Donald Trump's tariffs wreaked havoc on the market for much of the first half of the year. And while the market has become more resistant to those big swings, recession potential and foreign conflict could still cause losses.
Federal budget hawks badmouth them as "money laundering," but directed-payment programs have been a lifeline for hospitals in other states and Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis.