Fresh Produce News and Industry
MCCAIN finalised negotiations with its Tasmanian potato growers yesterday, which will see a massive price cut. Boat Harbour McCain potato grower and former Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association McCain growers chairman Wally Elphinstone said he found out the result of negotiations yesterday. “We got a letter in the mail today (Wednesday),” he said. “A $26.50 [...]
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The recent spike in wheat prices has reaffirmed the vulnerability of the international food market to minor shocks in supply. A repeat of the 2007–2008 food-price crisis is unlikely at the moment, given the relatively high levels of global grain stocks and relatively low price of oil. However, with food prices already rising and food [...]
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It is the most populous State in the country, and is also the biggest producer of foodgrains. Land acquisitions will take away a third of the cultivable lands for non-farm use. Such huge diversion of farm lands will result in drastic cut in food production, and has threatening socio-political implications. India is witnessing a thousand mutinies. Pitched [...]
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AgriSA announced that it had been approached by the governments of Namibia and Gabon to help establish large scale irrigation farms in their respective territories. In a statement AgriSA president Theo de Jager said :” Namibia has become the 22nd country to invite Agri SA to establish irrigation (farms) along the banks of the Orange [...]
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Tens of thousands of young locusts have started hatching west of Nyngan in central western New South Wales. The Livestock Health and Pest Authority (LHPA) says most of the nymphs have been discovered at a property on White Rock Road in the Hermidale area. Equipment is being brought in so spraying can begin when the [...]
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A first draft of the cacao genome is complete, a consortium of academic, governmental, and industry scientists announced today. Indiana University Bloomington scientists performed much of the sequencing work, which is described and detailed at the official Web site of the Cacao Genome Database project. Despite being led and funded by a private company, Inc., [...]
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The second stage to the booming Chinese economy is about to begin. And many of the country’s farmers, with little more than shacks and eight kids to feed are going to be the driving force behind it. No longer will the Chinese economy be solely reliant on cheap manufacturing of DVD player’s and mobile phones. [...]
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Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – The South Dakota Corn Growers and a Sioux Falls law firm will hold a public meeting Tuesday night for area corn farmers who received letters from bankrupt ethanol producer VeraSun Energy Corp. asking for some money back. The Aug. 20 letters were sent to farmers paid by VeraSun [...]
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The threat of frost hitting fields across the province by Friday could mean the end of the growing season for crops already weeks behind, analysts say. “The big concern going forward is the lateness of the crop and whether the frost gets to it before it matures,” said Bruce Burnett, director of weather and market [...]
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A shopper leaves the Wal-Mart Store No. 1 in Rogers, Arkansas. Photographer: Beth Hall/Bloomberg Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is the target of an unlikely alliance between a labor union and farmers and ranchers who say the world’s largest retailer is using its power to hold down prices in the agriculture industry. The United Food and Commercial [...]
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Millions of Asians are spending more to put food on the table as a result of supply disruptions from floods and drought. — PHOTO: AFP SINGAPORE – SINGAPOREAN housewife Nursiah Sabada could only shrug in resignation as she shopped for food ahead of the holiday weekend marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of [...]
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Support Will Promote Economic Development, Training for Entrepreneurship and Business Growth Small Socially Disadvantaged Producer Grants includes Colorado’s Arkansas Valley Organic Growers – $93,000 & Rio Culebra Agricultural Cooperative – $186,000 WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced support for economic development initiatives and for educational institutions to help owners of small farms [...]
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NSW irrigators in the Murrumbidgee and Murray Valleys are thrilled that they’ve been offered more water. Combined general security allocations in the two valleys have been increased to nearly 70 per cent. Executive director of the Rice Growers Association, Ruth Wade, says this is great news for her industry. “The Australian Bureau of Statistics is [...]
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The Whitsunday Mayor says farmers in north Queensland are now more safety conscious after the poisoning of millions of fruit and vegetable seedlings. About 7 million seedlings were poisoned at a number of properties around Bowen, south of Townsville, in June. There were fears the poisoning would lead to a shortage of produce and tomato [...]
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