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After Drought, Fertiliser Shortage Worries French Wheat Growers

A potential shortage of fertilisers is increasing risks for next year's wheat harvest in France, the European Union's biggest producer, after thi...

Surging Fish Prices In China Stir Up Food Supplies

Chinese consumers are having a hard time stomaching a nearly 50% jump in fish prices from a year ago, which mark the latest shake-up to the country's vast...

Poor Wheat Quality In France Could Hike Flour Prices, Millers Say

A fall in the average quality of France's soft wheat harvest this year will lead to an increase in flour prices linked to additional work for mil...

Frost And Freight Costs To Push Retail Coffee Prices Up

The most devastating frost in decades in top coffee producer Brazil and record freight costs sparked by COVID-19 causing massive shipping logjams are expec...

Coffee Prices Surge Amid Unusual Cold Weather In Brazil

Arabica coffee prices rose 10% more on Monday, after jumping nearly 20% last week, to their highest in nearly seven years as unusual cold weather threatens...

Agriculture Prices To Ease; Hunger And Climate Goals Far Off: FAO/OECD

Food commodities are likely to become cheaper in the coming decade as productivity grows, but global targets on reducing hunger and emissions are unlikely...

Global Food Import Costs To See Record Surge This Year: FAO

Global food import costs are expected to rise 12% in 2021 to a record due to surging commodity prices and robust demand during the COVID-19 crisis, the Uni...

First Quarter Pork Output In China Jumps To Highest In Two Years

China's first-quarter pork production rose 31.9% from a year earlier to 13.69 million tonnes, data showed on Friday, the highest quarterly volume in two ye...