Australia’s largest exporter of dairy products, Murray Goulburn, has announced the third pay hike for farmers this season – the first Australian processor to make such a move on the back of...

The recognition and support for food processing in the Federal Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) amendments has been welcomed by Australia’s largest manufacturing sector,...

Unique Australian chocolate bar, the Polly Waffle, is to be axed by maker Nestlé. Nestlé confirmed yesterday that production of the marshmallow-filled bar would cease after this year’s recipe...

Employees at the McCain vegetable processing plant in north-west Tasmania are hopeful that a co-operative could be created to ensure jobs are not lost. McCain announced last week that, while their Smithton...

Federal Trade Minister Simon Crean and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke have welcomed the decision by the European Union (EU) to end dairy export subsidies. The EU introduced...

Fonterra-owned Mainland Cheese has insured the tastebuds of their leading cheese taster for $10 million.The Chief-of-Cheese at Mainland, Peter Sinclair, has been tasting cheese for a quarter of a century...

Australia’s food and grocery industry has urged the Senate to pass a Bill to establish a new National Preventative Health Agency, the Australian Food and Grocery Council has advised. Introduced into...

The latest release the Westpac-NFF Commodity Index has shown that commodity prices remain 16.2 per cent below last year’s data, despite a 2.5 per cent rise in October. Commodity prices that lifted...

Millennials – or Generation Y – are one of the largest demographics in the world and will soon be entering a strong growth period in both income and consumer packaged goods (CPG) spending....

China is anticipated to have reaped lower growth rates in food exports this year in the wake of last year’s melamine scandal but it is unlikely to dent their future as a world leading food supplier. The...