A soyabean ship has run aground in Argentina's main grains hub of Rosario, slowing exports from one of the world's top food suppliers just ahead of high Southern Hemisphere shipping season.
Chinese trader COFCO Corp's move to grab control of two overseas grains operations in the space of a week threatens to limit the benefits Japan's Marubeni Corp hoped to reap in the world's largest food market.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture bought a total of 126,814 tonnes of food quality wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that closed late on Thursday.
Spot basis bids for corn and soyabeans were mostly steady at processors and elevators on Tuesday around the US Midwest in quiet trade with few farmers selling grain and soya, dealers said.
International grain traders are looking at French wheat as a possible replacement for Ukrainian supplies should shipments from one of the world's top exporters get held up by political turmoil over Russia's moves in Crimea.
In the last decade, coffee consumption by Australian adults has declined slowly but steadily, from 10.5 cups to 9.2 cups per week, but cafe visitation and ownership of coffee-making machines is on the rise
Overall rice stocks in the Philippines fell to their lowest in four months in February, data showed on Monday, increasing pressure on Manila to import more of the national staple.
Palm oil on the European vegetable oils market continued to rise on Thursday on concerns that dry weather in Asia could reduce output and because of gains in rival soyaoil.
India's palm oil imports are set to drop 6 percent in the year to October 2014, with buyers opting for rival soybean oil as the price spread between the two narrows, traders said on Monday.
Vietnam shipped abroad 637,756 tons of rice, worth 274.62 million U.S. dollars in the first two months of this year, state-run Vietnam News Agency quoted the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) as reporting on Wednesday.
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, increased 2 percent year on year in February, marking easing inflationary pressure since the end of last year, official data showed on Sunday.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said the F.A.O. Food Price Index was 208.1 in February, up 5.2 points, or 2.6%, from January, marking its sharpest increase since mid-2012.
Global food prices rose 2.6 percent in February in the sharpest climb since mid-2012 due to unfavourable weather, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday, with the crisis in Ukraine threatening to cause future volatility.
This week, the African swine fever (ASF) situation, together with the Russian ban on imports of pork from the EU, still dictate the market development on the European slaughter pig market.
Victoria, a southeast state of Australia, launched on Wednesday a four-year Food to Asia Action Plan, which aims to boost exports to Asia and make the state "the food bowl of Asia."
