The first press review for raw materials in agri food industry
Michigan grows a third of all U.S. blueberries, but an increase in global production and South American imports are threatening to drive prices down sharply for this year’s crop. About 150 million tons of blueberries are now in storage nationwide,…
Vietnam’s coffee production for the 2009-10 crop year could be affected by the unseasonal rains, but it’s too early to predict the extent of the damage this far from harvest, traders said Thursday. “The early rains have some impact on the crops…
Exporters continue focusing to sell current crop for nearby shipments. However most of the demand is concentrated on new crop qualities for forward shipments. One of the largest roasters succeeded to obtain (MTGB GC Quality)…
California walnut brokers and growers, struggling to market a record-shattering 2008 harvest – nearly 160 million pounds of nuts more than the previous record – got a boost Tuesday from the federal school lunch program.
China is expected to dominate world markets in 2009 by producing 28.5 million tonnes of apples, says Desmond O’Rourke, Publisher, World Apple Report. Put into context, that’s seven times what the country produced in 1990.
More than 50,000 ha of processing tomatoes are grown and 600,000 ton ketchup are produced per year in Xinjiang province. It represents 80 per cent of the processed tomato output in China, and over 13 per cent globally…
Many processing plants are finishing the purchase of root vegetables and brassicas and they are preparing for the purchase of spinach.Last year the purchase of spinach in processing plants was started at the end of April.
Speculative trading on outside market influences weighed on ICE Futures U.S. arabica coffee Wednesday as the market consolidated recent gains. May coffee settled 125 points lower at $1.1450 a pound, and the July contract also settled 125…
Guatemalan coffee exports in March, the sixth month of the current 2008-09 crop cycle, were down 14% to 460,075 bags of 60 kilograms each, the Guatemalan Coffee Association, Anacafe, said Wednesday.
We have passed half of the 4 weeks of frost risk without any warning and the weather forecast remains favourable. So, if the conditions remain unchanged during the next 10 days, we can consider that the risk of disastrous crop (350 to 450 000t) will be away.