Industry news & Vesper highlights
US butter makers are running flat out, yet the cold store keeps emptying. Stocks ended May at 335.6m lbs, the lowest May reading since 2022 and down 8% on the year. The obvious explanation, that someone stopped churning, is wrong: production hit a record 916m lbs over the first four months of 2026, up 6.1%. […]
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A strong result from Brazil and weaker oil prices have offset El Niño risk to keep sugar under pressure. Oil...
Vegetable oil markets steadied this week, caught between a rebound in Brent crude and a long list of conflicting signals....
India’s spice markets spent the second half of May waiting on buyers rather than supply, and this fortnight produced a...
Container shipping is under more pressure than at any point since the Red Sea crisis, and the squeeze is coming...
Cocoa opened last week with a strong rally and then gave it back over consecutive down days, a pattern Martijn...
The peanut market has moved back into cost-of-production territory after a long stretch of oversupply, according to Alimenta Agri LLC....
East Asia’s sugar markets are heading into the new season with weather and policy pulling in different directions. In Thailand,...
European egg prices are falling across all categories this fortnight, driven by rising imports from Eastern Europe and Turkey, approaching...
The European Commission has confirmed that Brazil will not be permitted to export poultry meat and animal products to the...
