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Chinese Food Prices Keep Falling
2013-04-05 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CHINA - Prices of agri-foodstuff fell for the sixth consecutive week in 36 medium and large sized cities in China according to monitoring by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).
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Food Prices Rise 1.9 Per Cent in January
2013-02-14 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
NEW ZEALAND - Food prices rose 1.9 per cent in the January month, and were up 0.8 per cent on a year earlier, Statistics New Zealand said today (Thursday).
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World food prices stable in Jan after three months of falls: FAO
2013-02-07 10:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: World food prices stabilized in January after falling in the previous three months, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday, but it warned that adverse crop weather could cause violent price spikes due to tight grains stocks. Global food prices surged in mid-2012 following the worst U.S. drought in more than half a century and dry weather in other key grains exporters, raising fears of a food crisis similar to the one in 2008. But prices eased in the last three months of 2012 due to...
2012 Drought Affecting 2013 Food Prices
2013-01-30 22:58:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
A USDA economist says the persistent drought in the Midwest will lead to higher-than-normal food price inflation for the rest of the year. Ricky Volpe, USDA Economic Research Service, says, "It had substantial and devastating impacts on the major field crops of the American Midwest. The most important field crop there is field corn. Now, people dont eat field corn directly, but its processed into animal feed and thats a major input to the U.S. food supply chain so were seeing input costs rise for all the meat products and then all of these animal based products that consumers buy regularly. Were looking at inflation on the order of about three to four percent for beef and veal, pork, poultry, eggs and even a little bit higher for dairy. LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed("limelight_player_452471"); read more
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