Poultry processor, Baiada Poultry, has reached a deal to buy Bartter Enterprises/Steggles Foods from the founding Bartter family.
Over 900 comments were received on the draft of the Australian Standard for Organic and Biodynamic Products.
Australia is becoming a dumping ground for low-grade olive oil, with no effective controls in place on cheap imitations coming in from Europe.
Italian dairy giant Parmalat and Australian cooperative Murray Goulburn have dropped their joint bid for Australia's Dairy Farmers after failing to reach a "mutually satisfactory resolution on terms and conditions".
Warrnambool Cheese and Butter has been given approval to jointly take over Dairy Farmers.
Dairy Farmers is facing legal action after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission took the company to court for alleged misleading advertising.
Following legal action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Federal Court has declared that Nudie Foods Australia Pty Ltd made misleading claims about two of its juice products, Rosie Ruby and Rosie Blue, and breached the consumer protection provisions of the Trade Practices
Fresh fruit and vegetables are being trucked all around the country, only to end up on supermarket shelves just down the road from where they were grown.
Dairy cooperative Dairy Farmers would be split in two if Parmalat and Murray Goulburn take over the business.