Supply Chain

French Sugar-Beet Harvest Set To Fall To Six-Year Low On Weather

Sugar-beet production in France will fall to a six-year low this season as adverse weather hurt yields, according to the Agriculture Ministry. Output in...

Nuova Castelli Acquires Empire Specialty Cheese

Italian cheese processor Nuova Castelli Group is investing several million dollars to purchase 75 per cent of Empire Specialty Cheese. The acquisition w...

Carrefour And Intermarché Stock Consorcio del Chorizo Products

Carrefour and Intermarché have commenced selling chorizo SKUs bearing the Consorcio del Chorizo label, which guarantees authenticity of origin and p...

‘Catastrophe’ Seen By South Africa Agriculture Due To Drought

As South Africa’s worst drought in more than a century persists, crops besides grains are under threat as irrigation reservoirs drain, and that could...

Late Sugar Sales Help Brazil Mills Struggling With Debt Burdens

Who would have thought a lack of credit could turn out to be a blessing for Brazil’s most indebted sugar mills? Without financing to make forward...

Russia Becomes A Grain Superpower As Wheat Exports Explode

Almost 25 years after watching the Dawn of Communism collective farm where he grew up land in the dustbin of history, Andrey Burdin is helping turn Russia...

Africa’s Biggest Cocoa Farm Takes Shape In Central Ivory Coast

In central-eastern Ivory Coast, a cocoa plantation that will be Africa’s biggest, spanning an area equal to about 3,000 soccer fields, is taking shap...

Rice Seen Extending Biggest Loss In Three Years on India Monsoon

Rice prices may extend losses after the biggest quarterly drop in three years as a revival in India’s monsoon rainfall helps boost global production...