The overall drop after five months of growth reflects a slide in prices for grains and vegetable oils 4 August 2016, Rome – The international prices for major food commodities saw a modest decline in July, following five ...
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Global food commodity prices dropped back in 2012, with dairy and sugar showing the sharpest declines, new figures from the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation show. Despite ongoing concerns around rising food prices, the UN ...
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Unusual weather around the world, including the drought this summer in the US, has led Fonterra CEO Theo Spierings to forecast an increase in global dairy prices in the first half of 2013. Spierings also pointed to weather events in ...
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