Supply Chain

Soybeans Price Slump as Record US Harvest Expected

Soybeans slumped to the lowest level since 2010, extending a second weekly loss, on expectations farmers in the US will harvest a record crop. Futures...

Canadian Farmers May Harvest Less Wheat and Canola in 2014

Canadian wheat growers will probably reduce output by 26 per cent this year and canola production will also fall, the government’s statistics agency...

Cheese Shortages In Russia As It Stacks Up Elsewhere Due To Ban

At Alexander Krupetskov’s one-window cheese store in central Moscow, sales of products from France have tripled in the past two weeks. Shoppers...

Corn Drops as Tour Samples Show Harvest Is ‘Looking Fantastic’

Corn and soybean futures fell in Chicago as field observations from a crop tour in the US Midwest this week bolstered optimism that production will climb t...

Putin Turning Poles Into Cider Lovers?

Russia's ban on Polish apple imports isn't going to be taken lying down. Faced with losing the country’s largest market, some of Poland's biggest new...

Tesco Baulks At Mixed-Origin Beef

Tesco has said that it does not intend to stock mixed-origin beef and has rejected proposals that beef could be labelled mixed-origin. British retaile...

Too Much Corn With Nowhere to Go as U.S. Farmers Plan for Record

The ripening corn and soybean fields stretch for miles in every direction from Dennis Wentworth’s farm in Downs, Illinois. As he marvelled at his bes...

Chinese Retailer Offers Insurance for Baby Milk

Chinese retailer Suning Commerce Group, which owns the Redbaby chain, is offering insurance to customers buying infant milk formula, in a bid to allay cust...