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Susannah Savage

Commodities Correspondent

Susannah Savage is the FT’s commodities correspondent based in London. She covers agriculture including agricultural commodities, food and agri companies, and farm and food policy.

Prior to the FT she was a South Asia correspondent for The Economist and a policy reporter for Politico based in Brussels.

Email Susannah Savage @SavageSusannah  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Agricultural commodities
    Will weight-loss drugs lead to upheaval in the sugar market?

    While many traders have brushed off concerns, the potential impact is clear

    A machine shoots raw sugar into a pile inside a warehouse outside the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of South Florida processing facility in Belle Glade, Florida
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    How climate change is redrawing Europe’s wine map

    Extreme weather is pushing viticulture into colder northern territory and forcing traditional winemaking regions to adapt

    Bjørn Bergum on his Slinde Vineyard in Norway
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Food groups develop a taste for cocoa alternatives

    High commodity prices and sustainability concerns prompting investment by likes of Mondelēz into lab-grown versions

    Cocoa pods and beans
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Commodities
    Trump protectionism threatens energy transition, warns BHP chief

    Mike Henry says shifting US policies risk slowing allocation of capital to projects essential to renewables switch

    Mike Henry, chief executive of BHP
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Poland auctions butter reserve as soaring prices spread to politics

    Government’s strategic reserves agency to sell 1,000 tonnes in frozen 25kg blocks of unsalted milk-based spread

    Butter, which has been rising fast in price in much of Europe, is displayed in a grocery store in Warsaw
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Sustainability
    Biodiversity hit to economies estimated at up to $25tn a year in landmark report

    Equivalent of one-quarter of global GDP lost annually, report by 165 scientists finds

    A man holds a dead fish at Lake Chivero where four white rhinos died in Zimbabwe after drinking water from the sewage-polluted lake
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Cargill Inc
    Cargill to cut thousands of jobs as part of sweeping restructuring

    Move by world’s largest agricultural commodities trader follows falling revenues and declining crop prices

    The Cargill logo is displayed on the exterior of a factory in Lucens, Switzerland.
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    Coffee futures hit 47-year high on global supply and EU law fears

    Commercial buyers ‘go into panic mode’ to secure high-quality arabica beans

    Worker picks through dried droppings from the Jacu bird containing coffee beans
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    The new corporate green goal: being ‘nature positive’

    More companies are committing to protect and improve biodiversity. But some experts fear the potential for greenwashing

    A dog walker in Tiergarten Park in Berlin
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    News in-depthFishing industry3 min
    Is it possible to sustainably satisfy the world's hunger for fish? | FT Rethink

    Today, some 35 per cent of the world’s fish stocks are classified as overfished. That’s thanks largely to a combination of government subsidies, as well as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

    Can we combat overfishing?
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Utilities
    Water demand will soar because of wars and tech, says utility boss

    Cox chief expects needs to rise at 10-15% rate a year as company seeks to raise €300mn on Madrid Stock Exchange

    Water desalination plant in Ras al-Khair, Saudi Arabia
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    Global egg price surges as avian flu hits supplies

    Average prices are 60 per cent higher than in 2019, Rabobank estimates

    Prices for eggs are seen at a grocery store in Chicago
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    Coffee producers fear being cut off from EU by new land protection law

    Drinks company JDE Peets pleads for year’s delay on ban on supplies from deforested areas over lack of guidelines

    Coffee being harvested on a farm in  Brazil
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    London’s cocoa market blighted by ‘poisoned pill’

    Poorer quality stock in UK warehouses has led to a rare divergence in prices with the New York market

    Workers collect dry cocoa beans in front of the store of a cocoa cooperative in the village of Hermankono, Ivory Coast
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    Soaring coffee prices have Italians ‘afraid and panicking’

    Poor harvests are pushing up costs up for a nation that consumes 6bn shots a year in bars and cafés

    Cup of hot black coffee espresso on table in street cafe, Rome
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Deere & Co
    Tractor maker Deere settles SEC probe into alleged cash and massage parlour bribes

    Thai subsidiary accused of winning government contracts with inducements

    A Deere mower in the US
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Chemicals
    Europe must push for low CO₂ bread, says fertiliser group chief

    Yara International head calls for more government support in the production of green crop nutrients

    A farmer harvesting wheat in India
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    Orange juice squeezed by Brazilian drought

    Futures prices are almost three times above those of two years ago as crop disease hits yields

    Brazilian orange orchard
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Agricultural commodities
    Soaring coffee prices force roasters to add lower-cost beans to blends

    High-quality arabica and cheaper robusta beans have both surged in recent months

    Farmer picks arabica coffee cherries
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    The global power of Big Agriculture’s lobbying

    Behind the public image of farming lies a vast industry adept at securing subsidies and exemptions from environmental measures

    Montage image of a tractor, pitch fork, cow and dollar and euro bills
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Cargill Inc
    Cargill’s revenues drop from record levels as ample crops depress prices

    Revenue decline comes as agricultural trader restructures organisation amid profit pressure

    Cargill’s advanced biodiesel plant is processing recycled oils and fats into renewable fuel
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Chief at Douwe Egberts owner JDE Peet’s steps down after five months

    Interim boss Luc Vandevelde leaves Dutch-listed tea and coffee group due to ‘unforeseen matters’

    Douwe Egberts and Senseo coffee packets
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Chocolate lovers given taste of inflation as Freddo frog prices jump

    World’s big sweet and candy makers pass on soaring cost of cocoa to consumers

    Chocolate Freddo frogs
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    UK leaders court US investors

    Asset managers fret over lost gains as investor cash piles up on the sidelines

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    Commodities
    Commodity bulls’ dash for the exit sends prices tumbling

    Lacklustre Chinese demand helps push copper down around 20% from record high, while other base metals and corn also fall

    Molten copper
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