Paris | Reuters – Strategie Grains lowered its monthly forecast for this year’s soft wheat crop in the European Union, confirming its expectation for a four-year low in production as harvesting gets under way. The consultancy now sees 2024/25 soft wheat production in the 27-country bloc at 121.8 million metric tons, 1.7 million tons less […] Read more
Strategie Grains cuts EU wheat crop forecast as harvesting starts
EU to secure 40 million avian flu vaccines for 15 countries: officials
Brussels | Reuters – The EU will sign a contract on Tuesday to secure over 40 million doses of a preventative avian flu vaccine for 15 countries with the first shipments heading to Finland, EU officials said on Monday. The deal secures up to 665,000 doses from vaccine manufacturer CSL Seqirus and includes an option […] Read more
Ukraine: Our common hive
The people of Ukraine continue to adapt, survive and even thrive
Reading Time: 5 minutes You wake up in the morning and drink coffee before starting the work day. You turn on the TV and listen to a long list of deaths and destruction that happened in your country overnight. The announcer speaks almost without emotion, as if he is talking about everyday, ordinary things. You hear that 10 missiles […] Read more
EU sets prohibitive tariffs on Russian, Belarusian grain from July
Today European Union trade ministers agreed to impose prohibitive tariffs on cereals, oilseeds and derived products from Russia and Belarus from July 1, a move the bloc said would halt imports of these products.
Polish farmers begin hunger strike over EU Green Deal
Five Polish farmers have gone on hunger strike over European Union environmental regulations they say are driving them out of business.
European farmers have not embraced green policies
International trade observer points out complex relationship between the EU and its national governments and producers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – The push for more sustainable agriculture policies in Europe is accentuating the complex relationship between member states and the European Commission, said a trade expert based in Brussels. Christina Kaul from Trade-Up, a network of international trade experts, said North Americans might view the EU as one big block but there is […] Read more
Europe’s restless farmers are forcing policymakers to act
Polls suggest the general population is on farmers' side; farmers lynchpins of rural economies say leaders
European policymakers have scaled back rules to protect nature, drawn up limits on the import of tariff-free Ukrainian grains and scrapped new legislation limiting pesticide use as farmers' protests resonate with voters ahead of elections.
Polish farmers take grain protests to Lithuanian border
Farmers continue to protest against what they say is unfair competition from outside the EU
Polish farmers protested on the border with Lithuania on Friday against what they say are imports of Ukrainian grain through the Baltic country, something the Lithuanian officials deny.
Poland mulls wider ban on Ukrainian food imports as farmers warn of more protests
Further talks with Ukraine planned for Wednesday, agriculture minister says
Warsaw | Reuters -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday he could not rule out widening a national ban on imports of Ukrainian grains to other products if the European Union does not act to protect the bloc's markets.
Farmers protest across Europe, press ministers to act
Protests continued in Brussels, Madrid, border between Poland and Germany
Farmers on Monday blocked a border crossing between Poland and Germany, threw bottles at police in Brussels and gathered in Madrid to demand action on cheap supermarket prices and what they say is unfair competition from abroad.
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