Published: Jun 09, 2015

SOUTH AFRICA - The US can soon resume chicken exports to South Africa after the two countries reached an agreement to end South Africa's 'anti-dumping' regulations.

Published: Jun 09, 2015

US - Avian influenza continues to dominate the conversation in the poultry sector, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.

Published: Jun 09, 2015

US - Country of Origin Labelling, The Bird Flu, and the rising US Dollar. These seem to be the newsworthy events shaping our hog markets, write Allan Bentley and Doug Hayes.

Published: Jun 09, 2015

GLOBAL - Major food commodity prices declined again in May, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), hitting an almost six-year low as cereal prices fell substantially.

Published: Jun 09, 2015

CANADA - Canada's Minister of International Trade Canada, Edward Fast, and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz have issued a statement with Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, and Secretary of Agriculture, Enrique Martínez y Martínez

Published: Jun 09, 2015

US - Domestic meat demand has been strong in recent months, but export demand has been weak. Domestic pork demand was up two per cent in April.

Published: Jun 08, 2015

Zimbabwe's second largest apple farm, Nyanga Downs, which at its peak accounted for a third of the country’s total output, has been offered to a German investor in a bid to clear debt owed by its troubled parent company, currently under administration, th

Published: Jun 08, 2015

A veritable fruit salad of Australian horticultural products is being exported overseas in record numbers, demonstrating the tangible benefits of the government’s trade efforts to growers’ bottom lines.

Published: Jun 08, 2015

There’s been a lot of news about mangoes being exported from Australia into the USA, but Australian lychee growers are also in the process of preparing for registration, and will undertake a similar three-year trial period of exports to the US.

Published: Jun 08, 2015

Ten years after the signing of the FTA between the two countries, exports of the main Chilean fruit appear to have peaked at around 90000 tons.

Published: Jun 08, 2015

Nestle SA, battling a reputational crisis in India, pulled its Maggi instant noodles from stores across the country on Friday after regulators reported some packets contained excess lead.

Published: Jun 08, 2015

ANALYSIS - Steve Meyer, vice president of pork analysis with Express Markets Inc. Analytics, shared an outlook for the US pork industry on the opening day of World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

Published: Jun 08, 2015

US - Sharply lower pork prices in April helped move a lot of US product into export markets, but beef exports have gone down, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.

Published: Jun 05, 2015

The United States exported 601,834 tonnes of distillers' dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to China in April, the second-largest monthly shipments ever to the top importer of the animal feed, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed on Wednesday.

Published: Jun 05, 2015

Global food prices in May fell to their lowest since September 2009 with declines in cereals, dairy and meat products outweighing slight increases in oils and sugar, the United Nations' food agency said on Thursday.

Published: Jun 05, 2015

The government of Ontario in Canada is investing around $5.2m in food projects to encourage local food production in the province.

Published: Jun 05, 2015

Ebro Foods has acquired US specialty rice business RiceSelect for $45m, through its local unit Riviana Foods.

Published: Jun 05, 2015

Nomad Holdings is reportedly engaged in early-stage talks to acquire frozen-food producer Findus Group.

Published: Jun 04, 2015

Tasmanian apple grower Hansen Orchards has seen yields up to 30% bigger than last year’s, with ‘colour and skin finish as good as we’ve ever seen’ according to Marketing Manager Baden Ribbon. The good news doesn’t stop at the domestic harvest either

Published: Jun 04, 2015

While last year around this time new carrots were already being harvested, this year the harvest takes a little longer to get going. I am only expecting this years new harvest in week 26, open-field v