While 2025 threw an entire combo platter of formidable challenges at the baking industry, overcoming sky-high obstacles is something professionals in the grain-based foods field are very much used to. Surging costs, ongoing workforce worries, supply-chain tangles, regulatory issues—those are all in a day’s work for a baker.

Organizations like the American Bakers Association (ABA) provide resources to help industry professionals face and overcome all of these concerns. What’s more, groups like ABA are collaborating more than ever to come up with ways to help bakery producers not just survive in the face of these worries, but to come out on the other side better than ever.

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