Total market year (MY) 13/14 oilseed production is forecast at 54.9 million tons from a planted area of 24.7 million hectares (MHa), both down 0.5 per cent and 2.2 per cent from MY12/13, respectively.
A new, highly-advanced 25,000-tonne grain processing and storage facility planned for a site near Beccles in Suffolk has been granted planning permission.
With their quota cut by 74 percent and warnings that the Gulf of Maine shrimp population was in bad shape due to warm ocean temperatures, fishermen expected this to be a rough shrimp season.
The purchasing power of China’s expanding restaurant and supermarket chains are clearly the focus of a Canadian seafood marketing campaign in the country’s business capital this weekend.
Authentic Food Company, Manchester, England, is looking for sales of £50 million in its current financial year after achieving 10% growth to £40m in the year to May 31 2012, with profits up 15% at £2.4 million.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture bought a total of 130,533 tonnes of food wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a weekly tender that closed on Thursday.
Olympic Seafood has announced the Eco-Collecting initiative which the company says embodies the ecological stewardship surrounding production of the Rimfrost Krill Collection.
Following on from the success of its 3-in-line Rosanna Pink Onion pack, Stour Valley based onion specialist Stourgarden has this week launched its latest range extension, Rosanna 750g cooks pack.
A California resident has filed a federal civil action against StarKist Co., accusing the owner of StarKist Samoa cannery in Pago Pago, of under filling certain StarKist canned tuna products.
China's pork prices have fallen 16.2 percent since late January as supply exceeds demand and the downtrend will persist in the near term, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Wednesday.