Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

French producer Prince de Bretagne will market two different boxes of vegetables from the past.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

A project to identify Nile tilapia ‘super strains’ in the Philippines will help to increase the living standards of poor fish farmers and consumers.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Seafood producers in Andhra Pradesh, India are struggling to gain access to a range of markets such as the US, Japan and the EU due to a lack of infrastructure in the state.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Northern Ireland-based milk processor Dale Farm has opened a £10m milk and cream facility at Pennyburn in Ballymena, County Antrim.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

According to new research from Mintel on the U.S. poultry market, it just might be as sales of turkey, duck, and other specialty birds, grew a considerable 6.5% in just one year, reaching $7.1 billion (2011–12).

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Slow exports and weakness spilling over from the soybean market depressed corn futures Thursday, thereby continuing the recent downward trend.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Scott Simpson, John Key, and Silver Fern Farms chief executive Keith Cooper check out some of the produce at the opening of SFF’s new plant in Te Aroha.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Cargill Inc.’s animal nutrition business announced plans to invest approximately $20 million in South Africa.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Meat imports to Russia from producers using ractopamine must be tested and certified free of the feed additive, the country's veterinary regulator said.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Much-anticipated snow this winter will bring many benefits to the struggling wheat crop, said Jim Shroyer, K-State Research and Extension crop production specialist.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Greg Roberts

Clean Seas Tuna is fighting for survival after failing to find a desperately needed partner for its troubled yellowtail kingfish business.

Published: Dec 24, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Eco-friendly fishing method was highlighted at a programme organised at Tharuvaikulam coast on Wednesday.

Published: Dec 24, 2012

Darden Restaurants reported a 37 percent drop in net earnings per share in its second quarter results, in part due to a decline in profits at the company’s Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants.

Published: Dec 21, 2012

When Barack Obama visited Indonesia in 2010, he tucked in to a steaming bowl of meatball broth, known as bakso, served to remind him of his childhood in Jakarta.

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Mike McGinnis

Lower overnight markets and bearish export news are expected to keep pressure on the CME Group corn, soybean markets Thursday.

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The Government of Canada is helping producers and agri-food exporters penetrate new markets by increasing the visibility of Canadian premium products internationally.

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Foodmate team

Although kiwi growing in the Region of Valencia is still not significant in terms of production volumes, it should be noted that it is one of the few areas not affected by the feared PSA bacteria.

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The Chilean province of Bío Bío announced it suffered a loss of 80% of its cherry crops, due to heavy rains earlier this week. Growers worry as more rain is expected.

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The French top fruit harvest has met with a 25% drop this year, compared to 2011. With 1.4 million ton the output of apples is in fact the lowest in 10 years.

Published: Dec 21, 2012 By: Foodmate team

The results of a recent survey by the California Department of Food and Agriculture found that there were more sales of walnut trees in 2012 than there were in the previous year.