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Nutella’s coming to your favorite coffee shop

Items with hazelnut will be available next week

By Jean-Paul McDonald, Farms.com

Tim Hortons Canada announced today that starting next week, April 15, the national icon will be offering customers a variety of products featuring Nutella, the popular chocolate hazelnut spread.

The coffee shop’s Nutella products will include a chocolate-hazelnut doughnut filled with the chocolatey nut spread, pastry pockets filled with Nutella, as well as offer Nutella as a spread option for bagels. The Nutella products at Tim Hortons will be offered for a limited time only, so if you’re a Nutella lover, be sure to get yours before the products disappear from the menu on June 9.

Over the last few years, we’ve reported a variety of news surrounding hazelnut farming, including the global shortage of the nut due to poor weather in August, 2014 and more recently, the increase of hazelnut production in Ontario back in December. In 2013, 40 acres of hazelnuts were grown in the province, followed by 100 acres the following year. In 2015, it is predicted that upwards of 600 acres of the nut will be grown.

With hazelnut production on the rise in the province, and a national coffee shop chain introducing Nutella on its menu, we might be seeing a lot more of the nut around. 


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The weather risk premium in the Ag complex is sending corn, wheat and soybean futures lower on month-end selling ahead of the market moving USDA quarterly grain stocks and acreage reports on June 30th.

Instead, funds were chasing and sending tech stocks higher with the S&P 500/NASDAQ indexes setting new all-time record highs!

June 1 USDA Hogs and pigs report was slightly bearish while the U.S. $ Index traded to new contract lows as the de-dollarization that began in 2014 continues.

Feed in the form of soybean meal futures for livestock producers got cheaper, trading to new contract lows.

The Stats Canada seeded acreage update was bullish canola and wheat.