Insights and Stories on Fruit/Vegetables

French co-op InVivo plans U.S. wine deal, more food shops

Dec. 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm CST

Paris | Reuters –– French agricultural group InVivo is looking to acquire a wine distributor in the U.S. and could open up to 200 food shops in its home market as part of plans to double in size within a decade, InVivo’s CEO said on Tuesday. InVivo entered the wine […]

ConAgra to spin off Lamb Weston potato unit, rebrand

Nov. 18, 2015 at 5:33 pm CST

By Anjali Athavaley Ramkumar Iyer

Pete Luckett’s stores to become arm of Sobey’s

Oct. 31, 2015 at 3:31 pm CDT

By Staff

Tomato producer Mastronardi said seeking buyer

Oct. 23, 2015 at 7:34 pm CDT

By greg-roumeliotis Lauren Hirsch

Bayer expects to compensate grape growers over crop damage

Oct. 15, 2015 at 3:26 am CDT

By John Miller

Treasury Wine to buy Diageo U.K., U.S. wine assets

Oct. 13, 2015 at 5:30 pm CDT

Sydney | Reuters –– Australia’s Treasury Wine Estates, the world’s biggest standalone wine maker, said Wednesday it had agreed to buy most of Diageo Plc’s U.S. and British wine operations for US$552 million (C$716 million). Treasury also announced a fully underwritten rights issue to raise around A$486 million (C$460 million) […]

By Reuters

Dawson: Ag exporters applaud historic TPP deal

Oct. 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm CDT

Export-oriented Canadian farmers are giving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement reached in Atlanta on Monday two thumbs up. The deal, which remains to be debated in Canada’s House of Commons and could take more than a year to be ratified by all 12 member countries, will see tariffs on Canadian […]

By Allan Dawson

Market access, income supports come with Trans-Pacific pact

Oct. 5, 2015 at 4:24 pm CDT

Canada’s federal government has pledged a suite of compensation programs for supply-managed dairy, poultry and egg sectors, against what it promises will be a mousehole in Canada’s tariff wall. Federal officials on Monday confirmed negotiations have concluded on the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership, now billed as “the largest, most ambitious free […]

By Staff

U.S. workers sue Monsanto claiming herbicide caused cancer

Sep. 29, 2015 at 6:17 pm CDT

Reuters — A U.S. farm worker and a horticultural assistant have filed lawsuits claiming Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide caused their cancers and Monsanto intentionally misled the public and regulators about the dangers of the herbicide. The lawsuits come six months after the World Health Organization’s cancer research unit said it was […]

By Carey Gillam

U.S. court finds EPA wrong to approve sulfoxaflor over bee risks

Sep. 11, 2015 at 2:52 am CDT

Reuters — A U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday that federal regulators erred in allowing an insecticide developed by Dow AgroSciences onto the market, canceling its approval and giving environmentalists a major victory. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, is significant […]