Western Australian Agriculture and Food Minister Terry Redman has used an address to delegates at a major international grains forum to re-affirm the State Government’s commitment to agricultural research...

The health implications of caffeinated energy drinks, improvement of public awareness of the nutrition content of take away food and recent international developments and efforts made by Australian and...

South Australian Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Grace Portolesi, today announced a new comprehensive food security strategy for the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The...

Milk producers Harvey Fresh and New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra have moved to take up extra milk, after farmers supplying the Challenge Dairy Co-operative were told they should find new purchasers for...

Lupins – a valuable crop rotation legume, and a rich source of protein and dietary fibre – will be the subject of Australia’s first major plant genome sequencing project. CSIRO researchers...

The French government is reportedly mulling plans to buy a minority stake in yoghurt maker Yoplait. The state-backed investment fund FSI is considering entering the race for Yoplait, Reuters reported today...

An expert panel sponsored by the US’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has issued comprehensive US guidelines to assist health...

New Zealand meat processor Silver Fern Farms is to increase capacity at three plants after a fire wrecked a facility in Te Aroha on Friday. A blaze late on Friday night “significantly damaged”...

Kraft escalates Starbucks dispute: injunction Kraft Foods has announced that it is seeking a preliminary injunction in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against Starbucks Coffee...

World food prices have climbed to their highest level for over two years, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said. The FAO said commodity price pressures show little sign of abating...