There are some stallholders ‘not ready’ and ‘not happy’ about the new Melbourne Markets premises, in Epping, due to open for trade next Monday, August 3, according to Jim Cochrane, of Jim Cochrane Farms.
It’s quite often hard to discern what’s what when shopping for Australian Made products, according to Ruth Gallace, co founder of Matilda’s Frozen Berries, which announced it will be in production from next month on Thursday.
Viet Nam is expected to reopen its doors to imports of three kinds of Australian fruit on August 1, said Hoang Trung, deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Plant Protection Department.
The Melbourne Market authority says the city's new wholesale fruit and vegetable market will open next month as planned, despite calls from traders to delay the move.
Australian consumer advocacy group CHOICE has analysed the country of origin claims for more than 320 packaged supermarket products in Australia. The range of products analysed for Country of Origin statements on their labels from curries to crumbed fish
Australia will soon have its first brand of 100% Australian grown frozen berries, processed on purpose built Australian engineered machinery in the Yarra Valley. Production is expected to begin in August, as the co-founders of Matilda's, Matt and Ruth Gal
The Australian Made Campaign has welcomed the Government’s proposed new country-of-origin labelling system for food, which will for the first time incorporate a bar chart showing what proportion of ingredients come from Australia, and will also include –
Police say there is no evidence to suggest a 26-year-old Italian national, missing in Childers in southern Queensland, left the property where he was living and working.
The FEGA has just published a resolution which provides information on the procedure to follow for the processing into juice for free distribution with payment in kind of 20,000 tonnes of peaches, nectarines and Paraguayo peaches.
Green’s Baking has partnered with UK Fine China maker, Royal Albert, to introduce a new range of cupcake mix bases. The concept of a Fine China premium brand lending its brand to a cake mix maker is certainly a way of conveying a premium product message a
McDonald’s may be experiencing some pressures regarding global profits but would the chain bother setting up a store in the heart of Australia’s Simpson Desert?
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A chop and a wash could lead to greater profits for the vegetable industry, says AusVeg spokesman Kurt Hermann. New research suggested consumers were looking for more convenient vegies — such as precut and pre-washed products, he said.
Tourism Research Australia has reported backpacker visitor numbers to South Australia dropped by 10 per cent in 2014 and some fruit picking jobs are not being filled.
The $10 million upgrade of the McCain potato processing plant at Smithton announced last week has been welcomed as a vote of confidence for the state's farmers and something that would allow local growers to farm more efficiently.
Wine Insights and Cumulus Wines, both based in Australia, have agreed to merge in an “all-share deal” to leverage synergies and take advantage of market opportunities.
