Major Western Australian dairy processor and fruit juice manufacturer Harvey Fresh has been sold to Italian dairy group Parmalat for about $117 million. Parmalat's Australian subsidiary is one of Australia's major manufacturers of dairy ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, dairy products, milk, yoghurt
Bread and snack food manufacturer Goodman Fielder has announced it expects its earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) in the 2014 financial year to be approximately 10 to 15 per cent lower than the previously expected $180 million. The ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency today announced a joint initiative to improve access to clean water and wastewater infrastructure for U.S. communities along the Mexico border. This initiative is ...
Tags: Agriculture, EPA, Certification
The 2014 corn crop's going to be 4% smaller than 2013, while soybean acres will grow, according to Monday's USDA-NASS annual Prospective Plantings report. Those numbers were immediately bullish, but those bulls didn't run far. And now, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Corn
American milk producers are enjoying a windfall thanks in part to surging exports to China, Bloomberg reported, citing US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data. While the average farm will see a 21% drop in net-cash income in 2014, dairy ...
Tags: Milk Demand, US Dairy Profits
Maple Leaf Foods today announced changes to its organizational structure and leadership that will be effective upon completing the sale of its 90% ownership in Canada Bread Company, Inc. to Grupo Bimbo, S.A.V. de C.V., which is expected to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
PrimusLabs has selected Roka Bioscience's Atlas System, an automated molecular system for food pathogen detection. The company will install the pathogen detection system at its microbiological laboratories in California, Arizona, and ...
Tags: Food, Agriculture, food safety testing
In the last five years, the proportion of Australians drinking soft drinks such as colas and lemonades in an average seven days has declined from 56 per cent to 49 per cent, but could it be that more consumers are simply starting to enjoy a ...
Tags: Soft Drinks, Agriculture, Food, beverage
UK-based 'wholefood' breakfast cereal brand Jordans has launched its Crispy Oat Clusters and Crunchy Oat Granola across Australia following a trial in 2013. Jordans was founded in 1972 by Bill and David Jordan, but Holme Mills, the home ...
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The EC is proposing stricter laws for organic foods The European Commission (EC) has proposed a new Regulation or organic products and labelling of organic products, saying that consumer and producer concerns are at the heart of the new ...
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Australian food manufacturer Patties Foods, which produces the iconic Four N' Twenty pie, has announced the appointment of Mr Steven Chaur as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, commencing on 15 April 2014. Patties Foods said ...
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Scientists and regulators investigating the mysterious spread of a deadly virus plaguing the U.S. pork industry are stepping up their scrutiny of what the nation's hog herd eats. With a dearth of solid leads, investigators are exploring ...
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Konstantinos V. Markou S.A. joins Cotton South Africa to become the second laboratory certified under the ICA Bremen ‘International Laboratory Certification Scheme’. Designed to raise the bar in the quality testing arena, ...
The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is planning to harvest more than 1.05 million tons of cotton in 2014-15 by sowing seeds on 545,000 hectares of land, reports the State News Agency of Turkmenistan. At a meeting of the Cabinet ...
Tags: Cotton, Turkmenistan, cotton seeds
Tip Top Foodservice, the specialist foodservice bakery division of George Weston Foods, has launched a new Burgen Gluten Free White Bread for the Australian foodservice industry. The new gluten free bread is frozen from fresh specifically ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food