As California winemakers are fighting tooth and nail to export more product to the lucrative Chinese market, their counterparts in nearby Washington State are doing the same.
Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,000 metric tons of soft red winter wheat for delivery to Egypt during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
The Austrian food retailer, SPAR Oesterreichische Warenhandels AG, will expand their existing logistics center in Wels by more than 107,639 square feet.
Japan refrained from making concessions to the United States over calls to scrap tariffs on all items other than politically sensitive rice during recent talks over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to sources.
Global crop production in 2013 will see slight increases in key crops with a more notable rise for wheat, Chinese researchers said in the country's maiden report for an initiative assessing crops around the world.
Hong Kong has banned the import of poultry and poultry products from the German state of Thuringen with immediate effect, the city's Center for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said on Tuesday.
Peru's non-traditional agricultural exports totalled US$ 940 million in September this year, an increase of 18% over the same period 2012, according the Agricultural Producers Association of Guilds of Peru (AGAP).
Fresh & Easy Neighbourhood Market Inc., the U.S. grocery chain owned by Tesco, cancelled its proposed auction after receiving no offers to compete with a bid from an affiliate of billionaire Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos.
Energy, relaxation, the return of speed-scratch products, foraged ingredients and protein are all trends to watch in 2014, according to Jamie Rice, research director for RTS Resource, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
MPI applauds the hefty sentence handed out last week to a commercial fishing skipper operating out of Tauranga for his part in a black-market fishing operation.
