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Canadian agribusiness Richardson is paying $330 million to Post Consumer Brands' parent company, Post Holdings in St. Louis, for the pasta portfolio.

ER physician group bets that urgent care with higher-level staffing, diagnostics, imaging will appeal to patients and save money in complex cases.

Also, the latest dire farm forecast, a sorghum superfood study and USDA reorganization concerns in this week's food and ag news roundup.

Some are canceling projects, others are cutting staff.

Children arrived at emergency rooms alone, unidentified and wounded from multiple gunshots.

Hospitals made "substantial" usage of donor blood to treat wounded from Annunciation Church shooting, encouraged more donations.

The Minnesota bacon-maker will be raising some prices on products to cover surging costs for pork bellies and beef.

The Richfield-based retailer did not say how many workers lost their jobs but said charges, including termination costs, helped drag profits.

Wednesday's announcement includes 118 layoffs in St. Cloud, as well as 19 at the headquarters in Eden Prairie.

The biggest hire yet for new owners Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez brings in Matthew Caldwell, who spent the past nine years overseeing the current reigning champions Florida Panthers.