Volatility in currency makes €5bn in food exports to UK significantly more expensive

Coveney in the eye of a storm over crashing milk prices

Per kilogram of milk solids payout at its lowest since at least 2006

Founder of biotech start-up says many of the major food co-operatives are silently backing the venture

With Europe’s quota regime ending this month, farmers have been ramping up production

Challenges in the dairy sector must be met head-on – through innovation

New Zealand dairy exporter says Russian ban on dairy imports will keep global prices volatile in coming months.

Overseas businesses push back against what they see as unfair antitrust enforcement by Beijing

Major US companies including Starbucks, Apple and McDonald’s, have come under intense scrutiny from China’s consumer watchdogs

Beijing says crackdowns on foreign firms are aimed at stopping abuses, but critics allege China is using investigations to protect and bolster domestic firms

Offices in four cities raided by government investigators

World’s largest dairy exporter, reports 41% fall in first-half earnings after higher input costs and a lack of processing capacity hit margins

The company, which makes Activia yoghurt, said that like-for-like sales in its previously fast-growing baby nutrition unit fell 8.6 per cent in the third quarter after a recall sparked by what turned out to be a false alert