The U.S. beef industry's dependence on the muscle-building drug Zilmax began unraveling here, on a sweltering summer day, in the dusty cattle pens outside a Tyson Foods Inc slaughterhouse in southeastern Washington state.
Malaysian palm oil futures ended nearly flat on Monday, reversing some gains made earlier on last-minute selling towards the session's close, although fears of more monsoon floods supported prices.
With the end of quota system at sight in 2015, the cost effective but labor intensive milk production in Finland is facing challenges in the coming years.
While growers will broadly welcome any rise in price, the extra £1/t for 2014 negotiated by the NFU on behalf of the 3,500 UK beet growers is hardly transformational, says Andersons director Jay Wootton.
Bangladesh's state grains buyer said it received no bids for the import of 50,000 tonnes of wheat in an international tender that closes on Thursday amid political turmoil ahead of next month's elections.
U.S. soybean futures inched upward on Tuesday in quiet pre-Christmas dealings with a sale of U.S. soy lending some modest support while weather in South America remained a mixed bag for the soy complex.
China has rejected about 2,000 tonnes of U.S. dried distillers grains (DDGs), a corn by-product, and will impose strict checks over an unapproved genetically-modified (GMO) strain, traders said on Thursday.
The United Fresh Produce Association is accepting nominations for its annual retail produce manager awards program, which honors 25 managers at the organization’s June 10-13 convention in Chicago.
The Florida Perishable Trades Coalition plans to enhance a pilot program that allows clearance of cold-treatment perishables such as blueberries and grapes from Peru and Uruguay through south Florida.
Supplies of red meat and poultry in cold storage declined in November, but were slightly higher compared to 2012 levels, the US Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service reported.
The United States and China have will continue to negotiate US beef exports to China, with the intention of restoring market access by the middle of 2014, the US Department of Agriculture reported.
“Low-fat” is losing weight in consumers’ minds as more health-conscious eaters adopt low-carb plans, according to a diet and nutrition trends forecast from Today’s Dietitian
