Agricultural Prices

Families and neighbours shopping through informal co-ops are saving hundreds, but the business model could help apply major competitive pressure to the major supermarkets.

A small Victorian milk company says supermarket giant Coles has removed its products from 65 Victorian stores in retribution for refusing to give the supermarket a bigger profit margin.

The price of blueberries has soared around the nation, and strawberry prices look set to follow.

The average American farmer doesn't fix fences and drive tractors. Thanks to market concentration, there is now a handful of companies that dominate the US food system, and they are impacting Australia too. 

A new industry is selling its services in Australia — weather forecasting using artificial intelligence and offering precise, hour-by-hour forecasts for areas as small as a football field.  

One of Australia’s largest food processors says it has reacted to shoppers buying cheaper imported food amid the cost-of-living crisis.  

After years of focusing on the Asian and domestic market, Australia's Wagyu beef producers are turning their attention to the US, where diners can have a steak delivered in a rhinestone-studded briefcase with a laser light show.

Australian rice growers have mixed views about the biggest shake-up of the industry in 100 years, but change is on the way.

On a recent visit to Tokyo, a New South Wales farmer was shocked to find Australian beef selling for less than you can find it in Coles and Woolworths.

Jamie Forster has received excellent farm gate prices for milk in recent years, but he is still giving up dairy farming — and he's not alone. It comes as Australian milk production shrinks to its lowest level in 30 years and butter and cheese imports soar.

Wine industry representatives say they will fight for financial assistance after the federal budget left them disappointed.

Farmers' market organisers say an increasing number of shoppers are cutting out the middleman and buying direct from producers, with many embracing a unique online marketplace gaining traction in Australia.

High cocoa prices are making life difficult for Australian chocolate makers, but there are hopes a growing local cocoa industry could make a difference.

New survey data shows tanking public trust in the Coles and Woolworths brands in the wake of regulatory and government inquiries and the rise in the cost of living.

While shoppers battle with the cost of food at the check-out, farmers around the world are expected to sow fewer crops this year, as the cost of growing some produce is higher than its potential value. 

Australia relaunches an olive oil monitoring program amid concerns consumers are purchasing inferior or fraudulent products.

Former Labor minister Craig Emerson has told the government it should not force large supermarkets to sell off stores, but should fine them if they mistreat suppliers.

Australian consumers are buying more artisanal varieties as the price of a block of grocery store cheese reaches a two-year high.

A slice of what was Australia's largest dairy farm in Tasmania's fertile north-west has been purchased by a Melbourne-based management fund as part of a 10,000 dairy cow goal.

The chief executive of an industry body representing Queensland fruit and vegetable growers says 40 per cent of its members' produce goes to landfill, accusing supermarkets of deliberately creating food waste to flood the market.

There was plenty of red ink in Australia's saleyards this week, with all of the major livestock price indicators falling. 

How Australian growers are making some of your favourite beer brands taste consistently good.

Victorian olive growers are struggling to fend off a bug infestation that is destroying their crops at a time when global demand for the product is high.

A popular family-owned farm is closing to the public and is on the market, with weather extremes, staffing challenges, and the increasing costs of production, insurance, and compliance as the reasons behind the closure.

Indonesia has finally issued import permits for Australian cattle with the first ship now on the water bound for Jakarta.