Dairy farmers in Australia have expressed anger over decision by Murray Goulburn and Fonterra to cut prices paid by them for raw milk.

The world is eating much more California almonds as snacks than it did just ten years back. This has given the agriculture investors a chance to cash on the nuts.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the US Agriculture Department has approved two varieties of genetically engineered apples for the market. Both the varieties resist browning. These apples were engineered by Okanagan Specialty Fruits, which is a Canadian company.

This year the U. S. has seen the largest harvest of grains in history and as a result the prices have dropped to a low in four-years. So the largest food exporter of the world will not have a sales bonanza this year.

Ukraine and Russia along with new competitors which have been rivals of the U. S in matters of grain production have produced a large amount of harvest themselves.

With plans to make its first foray into Chinese diary market, Abbott Park, Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories has hit a joint venture deal with Fonterra Cooperative Group Limited, the world's biggest milk processor.

Two "devastated" North Canterbury winegrowers say they are shattered to see their grapevines die after a routine insecticide spray went terribly wrong.

A common moth insecticide used on the vines in early December had been mislabelled by chemical manufacturing giant Dow AgroSciences claimed Brent Knight and Trevor Bunting.