Published: Mar 21, 2016

The cotton market is having trouble deciding which way it wants to turn.

Published: Mar 21, 2016

Sugar prices jumped to their highest levels in more than a year Thursday amid growing concerns over supplies in the world’s top producers.

Published: Mar 21, 2016

General Mills announced today it will begin labeling U.S. products that contain genetically engineered (GE) ingredients. The move comes just months before Vermont’s law that will require labels on GE foods by July 1, 2016, and bans use of the word “natura

Published: Mar 21, 2016

Through the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, and agreements like this, we are seeing increased demand for high-quality American beef.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

"In recent years, the food sector has been regularly hit by crises. EHEC 5 years ago, but also chlorate, perchlorate and quaternary ammonium salts have caused a lot of turmoil in recent years.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

The UK’s first air-dried range of vegetable crisps including Tomato & Cucumber, Pepper & Courgette and Beetroot & Parsnip, has been launched by Nim’s Fruit Crisps. Aimed at health-conscious consumers, the new range is made from 100% fresh vegetables.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

According to a Cambridge University report, the good cholesterol contained in foods like avocados and nuts, could actually increase the probability of heart disease for some people.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

As part of a campaign to promote fruit and vegetables, support Portuguese farmers and regulate fair prices for both producers and consumers, Portugese supermarket chain Continente recently turned one of Lisbon’s most heavily trafficked bus stops into an o

Published: Mar 18, 2016

Though the majority of oranges brought into the United States from Mexico are Valencia, local production of Navels still has an impact on the market for imported fruit. As California Navels are still available, prices for imported Valencias from Mexico ha

Published: Mar 18, 2016

The Commercial Office (OCEX) of Peru in Miami stated that, in 2015, the country had been the sixth citrus provider for the United States with an export volume of 35,200 tons, i.e. 15.2% more than in the previous year.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

Héctor José Pellegrino, head of Central Market, told Radio Brisas that, since there was no harvest of oranges in the Coast because of the floods, the country had had to import oranges from Spain and prices had increased.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

Recently, Norwegian retailers had a price war with chocolate snacks; now this has extended to oranges. At Menu, Kiwi and Rema stores, the price of oranges has been reduced to 2.50 kroner per kilo (0.26 Euro).

Published: Mar 18, 2016

Kari Peter, a Penn State Biglerville tree fruit pathologist, has released a recent report announcing that the first apple scab spores of the season have been detected in both Pennsylvania and New York orchards.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

The price of watermelons dropped sharply at the Berlin wholesale market, states a Berlin-based wholesaler and importer. “The entire market is flooded with watermelons. The products that went for 1.50 Euro yesterday only cost 70 cents today,” explains the

Published: Mar 18, 2016

The slowing Chinese economy is contributing to declining container trade in South Africa, and this is expected to continue. Yet strong crop outputs for apples, pears and grapes, meant that the refrigerated export market continued to see robust growth of 7

Published: Mar 18, 2016

Producers of table grapes in the Coast of Hermosillo and the Valley of Guaymas are getting ready for the 2016 harvest season. Table grapes from this areas are in high demand in international markets because of their excellent quality.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

In February, the fruit prices in Xiamen City declined. In Zhongpu fruit wholesale market, the monthly sales volume reached 8,540 tons, an increase of 3%.

Published: Mar 18, 2016

The new Ambassador of Taiwan in Chile, Jaime H.T. Chen, and the director of the Economic Division of the Embassy, Qua-te Lee, got together with the Association of Fruit Exporters of Chile (Asoex). Chen and Qua-te met with the President of Asoex...

Published: Mar 18, 2016

From 16 to 22 April, Commissioner Phil Hogan will travel to China and Japan accompanied by a delegation of EU entrepreneurs. The goals of the mission include giving support to the ongoing negotiations for the lifting of barriers that limit access to these

Published: Mar 18, 2016

South African businessmen travelled to Brazil for a three-day Investment and Trade Initiative (ITI), which began Wednesday 16 March. The businessmen are attending with the hope of increasing the exports of value added products to that market.