Published: Feb 03, 2016

As experts in Natural Flavourings for the baking and the sports and health nutrition sectors, the ITS (International Taste Solutions) team has developed on-going, Intensive research towards defining the main flavour trends that will lead the market in the

Published: Feb 02, 2016

Morrisons, Britain’s fourth-biggest supermarket, is to slash the price of more than 1,000 of its products with an average price drop of 19 per cent, in the latest salvo in the supermarket price war.

Published: Feb 02, 2016

Forecasts for favorable Brazilian weather seemed to depress the corn and soybean markets early Monday morning, although Argentine conditions look they’ll continue drying.

Published: Feb 02, 2016

International Food Products’ experts recently presented a close look at the forces shifting the oil, cocoa, sugar and flour markets.

Published: Feb 02, 2016

Walmart, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo have announced they will collectively donate water to meet the daily needs of more than 10,000 school children in Flint, Mich., for the balance of the calendar year. That translates to 176 truckloads—or up to 6.5 mi

Published: Feb 01, 2016

U.S. soybean futures fell on Thursday, with the most-active March contract down 1.6 percent, the largest drop for soybeans in more than a month, after exporters canceled U.S. soybean sales to China.

Published: Feb 01, 2016

No country in the world has Mexico's potential for the production of strawberries, but it should get ready for the future, as the United States will suffer severe climate issues that will affect its agriculture and Mexican states like Michoacan should tak

Published: Feb 01, 2016

Onion prices in Turkey are sending heads spinning. Both consumers and vendors are negatively affected by the price rise, which sees the price of the product increased to 3 lira a kilo but could go up to 4 lira a kilo.

Published: Feb 01, 2016

After large rainfall early in the season and recent tornadoes that wiped out replanting, the squash supply out of Florida has slowed to a trickle, driving up prices and pushing the market west.

Published: Feb 01, 2016

Turkey is number one for the lowest per person artichoke consumption, among artichoke producing countries. This causes prices to stay at consistently high levels.

Published: Feb 01, 2016

The Greek agricultural industry, like every other Greek industry, has had to struggle in the wake of a large financial crisis and economic instability. While a trade deficit remains, the country's growers and exporters are working to increase exports and

Published: Feb 01, 2016

Unusually cold weather during December slowed production of green onions in Mexico, but a return to warm weather has led to increased yields for Northern Mexico's growers. More volume has increased the shipments into the United States, and prices have dro

Published: Feb 01, 2016

Many apple growers in Poland suffered big losses last season on the back of higher production and the Russian export ban. This has brought about a push to find other markets, and Polish grower's group, Appolonia, is looking to Asia.

Published: Feb 01, 2016

"The most important watermelon variety is still the traditional watermelon with seeds: Quetzaly. However, the European export market remains difficult," explains Carlos Campo, of Potuga Fruit Co. in Panama.

Published: Feb 01, 2016

More Europeans are aware of and are purchasing American-grown sweet potatoes, according to market research done by the American Sweet Potato Marketing Institute.

Published: Feb 01, 2016

With the Navel season over, Agro Alex Group has already made a start to the Valencia orange campaign. “We are feeling optimistic about this season; even though the Valencia crop is lower than last year’s, we are prepared to increase our exported quantitie

Published: Jan 28, 2016

A former executive at Kellogg’s Australia has claimed in an article appearing in Fairfax’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers that the supermarket majors Woolworths and Coles could be using supplier information to help develop private label prod

Published: Jan 28, 2016

Chinese citrus producer Dongfang Modern Agriculture, which listed on the Australian share market last year, expects the current citrus and camellia harvest in China to be the company's best ever.

Published: Jan 28, 2016

A new pear variety, the red-blushed Lanya pear, was bred and selected in Tatura, Australia. It is set to enter the Asian market and appear in Australian stores by 2017. The Lanya pear is part of a new breeding program called Profitable Pears by the Depart

Published: Jan 28, 2016

Improved access to the Indian market for EU apple exports is good news for EU producers who have been looking for alternative markets in light of the difficult market situation. The European Union welcomed the announcement on Friday 22 January.