Stories Collection

  1. The 2003/04 Australian wheat crop forecast has been cut by 5% to 23.35 million tonnes...
  2. The UK environment and food department (Defra) announced increased payments for new a...
  3. (June 6) Draft Commission regulation laying down transitory measures arising from ...
  4. The following are the essential elements of the Presidency compromise on CAP reform t...
  5. Agricultural prices for the week ending June 6, 2003 UK Germany Netherlands ...
  6. Feed ingredient prices at 12.06.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  7. By 2008, Brazil aims to be exporting around 700 000 tonnes of pigmeat annually, up 47...
  8. Russia's relatively poor grain crop this year will mean that the country "will not ha...
  9. Much heavier than expected yields from early-harvested winter wheat and ideal weather...
  10. Australian beef production is expected to slump in 2003/04 as the industry still suff...
  11. The US pig herd could be at its lowest level in six years with breeding sows at a for...
  12. The outbreak of SARS as well as avian flu in leading poultry producing countries has ...
  13. New Zealand's April beef exports rose 7% on corresponding year earlier levels to 40 3...
  14. (June 5) Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 71 000 tonnes at ...
  15. Despite some rain delays to early winter wheat harvesting, many crop scouts are marki...
  16. Poland has voted conclusively in favour of joining the European Union, following last...
  17. French poultrymeat exports for the first quarter of this year totalled 154 970 tonnes...
  18. Agricultural prices for the week ending June 20, 2003 UK Germany Netherlands...
  19. In the wake of its BSE discovery two weeks ago, Canada took a step to help its strugg...
  20. Uruguay has been authorised to export fresh beef to the US in recognition of the succ...
  21. Genetically modified (GM) crops hold out the promise of helping small-scale farmers i...
  22. UK arable farmers are set to benefit from a 10.5% increase in the sterling value of t...
  23. New legislation being prepared for the development of rural areas in France will take...
  24. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 53 000 tonnes at a maximum re...
  25. Market situation: There are indications of a slight improvement in EU dairy market tr...
  26. The French agri-food foreign trade surplus amounted to 6812 million in April 2003, an...
  27. Stuart Harbinson, chairman of the WTO negotiations on agriculture, has rebuffed a req...
  28. The European Parliament has voted for the implementation of rules governing the expor...
  29. In the first quarter of this year Brazilian beef and pigmeat exports rose 63% to 153 ...
  30. Over the decades there have been many attempts to reform the Common Agricultural Poli...
  31. Swedish farmers, a key group in the September 14 referendum on whether Sweden should ...
  32. The Hungarian ministry of agriculture is planning to ban over-quota milk production, ...
  33. Agricultural income in Finland is showing only minimal growth at constant prices and ...
  34. Latest supply/demand estimates from the US Department of Agriculture reveal a sharp c...
  35. EU farm ministers this week crowned nearly 12 months of painstaking negotiations with...
  36. Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market common wheat, barley and rye a...
  37. The global rapeseed output is expected to total 36.55 million tonnes in 2003/04, down...
  38. EU egg output is currently 6% lower than at this point in 2002 as a result of the avi...
  39. Aside from the CAP reform debate (see preceding article), the only other substantive ...
  40. (June 5) Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market common wheat, and ...
  41. Timely spring rains have helped Western Canadian crops get off to a promising start a...
  42. The distribution of tariff quotas for poultrymeat imports to Russia according to coun...
  43. The Hungarian government's recent decision to devalue the forint by 2.25% against the...
  44. EU farm ministers reached political agreement this week on updated measures to combat...
  45. Total Japanese beef imports rose 47.2%, or 47 100 tonnes, to 146 800t in the first qu...
  46. The EU's trading partners have given a guarded welcome to the deal on reform of the C...
  47. Ongoing drought has led to a 5% drop in the forecast size of Australia's 2003/04 cano...
  48. EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler this week gave the first signs that he is ...
  49. The UK government launched its 'GM Nation?' debate on Tuesday amid widespread critici...
  50. The euro is trading stronger against the dollar and yen this morning despite a 0.50 p...
  51. Ukraine's grain harvest could fall to 25-27 million tonnes this year, from 38.8mt in ...
  52. In the first four months of this year Brazilian poultrymeat exports increased by a si...
  53. (June 12) Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention buffer at reduced prices and ai...
  54. The Latvian parliament has adopted a new law to protect the domestic pigmeat market b...
  55. (June 12) Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market common wheat and ...
  56. US beef production is forecast to rise to 26.39 billion pounds (11.97 million tonnes)...
  57. Cattle and calves on US feed lots totalled 10.53 million head on June 1, down 4% on t...
  58. The United States is to proceed with its request to establish a WTO panel to rule on ...
  59. The following is a consolidated, sector-by-sector version of the final agreement on C...
  60. The euro has edged up overnight from yesterday's six-week low against the dollar. It ...
  61. The European Parliament on Thursday delivered a series of opinions on European Commis...
  62. UK (excluding Northern Ireland) livestock slaughterings were down 6.3% to 7.95 millio...
  63. Agricultural prices for the week ending May 30, 2003 UK Germany Netherlands ...
  64. The euro has benefited from speculation that the Federal Reserve will cut US interest...
  65. Russia has now completed its spring sowing campaign, with grain crops sown on 34.69 m...
  66. Feed Ingredient prices at 26.06.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  67. The EU is committed to agricultural reform and will take a positive message to the WT...
  68. Many of the EU's largest member states are claiming victories in the this week's new ...
  69. A breakthrough was reached this week on the vexed question of Italian milk quota supe...
  70. National farm policies in the world's richest countries have not brought about reduce...
  71. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  72. In its latest medium term forecasts for agriculture the Organisation for Economic Co-...
  73. Canadian officials said on June 12 that they were confident the United States would s...
  74. A hot May, combined with inadequate rainfall throughout the spring is likely to resul...
  75. The new CAP reform agreement is robust and meets the EU's internal and external needs...
  76. Danish environment minister Hans Chr Schmidt, has decided to introduce a partial ban ...
  77. The new EU Constitution currently being pieced together by ex-French President Valery...
  78. The avian influenza epidemic in the Netherlands appears to have run its course. The l...
  79. Following the results of the December 2002 cattle census the Meat and Livestock Commi...
  80. Despite good progress in free trade negotiations between the European Union and Merco...
  81. The strengthening euro has been blamed for a decision at this week's EU dairy managem...
  82. Both EU pigmeat exports and imports increased in 2002, according to trade statistics ...
  83. Chicago wheat futures remained a magnet for US speculators this week, keeping prices ...
  84. Members of the European Parliament this week expressed deep unease over the idea of a...
  85. A possible compromise proposal to help smooth feathers ruffled by the European Commis...
  86. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  87. Chinese fresh and frozen pigmeat exports have more than tripled over the last three y...
  88. Rumours this week that China was cancelling incoming cargoes of US and Brazilian soya...
  89. Market situation: The dairy market is currently not in equilibrium. Although butter p...
  90. The way in which some drugs are being used on poultry farms in the UK could be illega...
  91. The International Grains Council (IGC) has once again lowered its forecast for world ...
  92. Following the discovery of a suspected case of avian flu on a German farm near the Du...
  93. Total Italian pigmeat imports declined by 5%, or nearly 43 000 tonnes, to just over 8...
  94. US winter wheat production is projected to increase by a dramatic 37% this year, acco...
  95. The European Parliament this week voted through tough new rules on 'environmental lia...
  96. On Tuesday May 13, the largest poultrymeat processor in the Netherlands, Stortemboom,...
  97. Wheat streak mosaic virus has now been confirmed on Australian farms and other non-re...
  98. The UK government this week issued its first set of official statistics for the organ...
  99. The International Grains Council's (IGC) global wheat production estimate for 2003/04...
  100. Serbia & Montenegro has been temporarily stripped of its right to export sugar to...
  101. The prime cattle market in the UK must be protected from the reemergence of hundreds ...
  102. The spread of avian flu in the Netherlands can be stopped in its tracks only if preve...
  103. Speculators who bet on US maize futures rising on tightening US supplies have been ba...
  104. The European Commission's proposals for reform of the EU dairy regime should benefit ...
  105. Russian restrictions on poultry imports have forced the United States to look for new...
  106. Brazil expects record grain crops this year and will overtake the US as the world's t...
  107. Argentina, one of the world's top wheat exporters, will see production rise in 2003/0...
  108. EU health Commissioner Byrne on Monday addressed EU farm ministers gathered for this ...
  109. The French foreign trade surplus for agricultural products reached almost [euro]2 bil...
  110. A row has broken out between the Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) and farm minister J...
  111. Despite early rain delays, rapid planting and fine germination weather seems to have ...
  112. The European Commission has urged the countries of Central and Eastern Europe not to ...
  113. After five years of meteoric growth, world poultrymeat trade faces relatively limited...
  114. Germany's grain market shrugged off confirmation of the country's first avian flu cas...
  115. A UK government scheme to subsidise the cost of fallen stock collection and disposal ...
  116. Despite the recent introduction of import quotas for meat, significant changes in the...
  117. First quarter 2003 Australian beef exports rose nearly 9% compared to the same period...
  118. Tougher regulation for labelling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) was called for...
  119. Bread grain: Market price pressure eased during April as a result of high imports. Im...
  120. Thailand's poultry industry plans to extend a self-imposed limit on the supply of chi...
  121. Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), Meat New Zealand (MNZ), the US Meat Export Federa...
  122. Farmland prices in England and Wales grew to an average of [pounds sterling]7 912 per...
  123. The ten countries due to join the EU next year are expected to swallow less than one-...
  124. When EU enlargement takes place on May 1 2004, the EU population will rise by around ...
  125. Recent international mud-slinging over Iraq will not add to the hurdles faced by nego...
  126. Compound feed sales in the Netherlands may fall by as much as 1.75 million tonnes as ...
  127. A call to restart export refunds (subsidies) on EU pigmeat exports ellicited a cool r...
  128. New Zealand agriculture has been affected by widespread cold and wet or cold and dry ...
  129. Weak US economic data and a fall in share prices yesterday have revived the euro, whi...
  130. Euro dips on recession fears The euro has continued to see its strength eroded aga...
  131. Canada has agreed to stop exporting subsidised dairy products to the US and will sign...
  132. The United States ended years of waiting by announcing on Tuesday that it is to file ...
  133. (May 14) FRESH Trigger volumes: These were updated (unanimous favourable opinion)...
  134. EU farm ministers gather in Brussels on Monday to chew over the CAP reform issues dis...
  135. Italian ham and cheese producers were handed a present on Tuesday when EU judges awar...
  136. The European Parliament's Agriculture Committee this week finalised proposals for ref...
  137. World rice production is expected to reach nearly 394 million tonnes in the 2003/04 s...
  138. The Swedish farming industry became less competitive in comparison with others in the...
  139. Efforts to draw up binding international trade rules on the use of geographical indic...
  140. In 2002 the EU cattle herd declined by 2.8%, compared to 2001, to total 78.1 million ...
  141. Global coarse grain plantings are expected to be largely stable in 2003, according to...
  142. The 10 acceding countries have been warned that they must speed up implementation of ...
  143. Beef demand across North America appears to have shrugged off last week's discovery o...
  144. EU malting barley production is expected to rise 900 000 tonnes to 11.35mt in 2003/04...
  145. Market situation: The EU egg and poultry markets remain stable, despite the avian inf...
  146. EU member states' commitment to thrashing out a compromise agreement on CAP reform ap...
  147. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  148. In April, Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) production rose 10%, or 100 000 tonnes over ...
  149. In bringing a case against the European Union for the claimed maintenance of a morato...
  150. The majority of Ireland's dairy and beef farmers would be better off as a result of t...
  151. British farmers are increasingly aware of the potential benefits of agricultural biot...
  152. The provincial government of Alberta, western Canada, this week confirmed the discove...
  153. Ministers and agricultural experts assembled at a major conference* at Chatham House ...
  154. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  155. The acceding member countries have an initial deadline of September this year to set ...
  156. After recent sharp falls, world grain prices were mostly stable in April but recent i...
  157. A 'high-level group' consisting of very senior figures from member states' agricultur...
  158. Only one new case of avian flu has been confirmed in Belgium in the past week, at Loe...
  159. Draft Commission Regulations derogating from 800/1999 re non-Annex I products exporte...
  160. The avian flu epidemic in the Netherlands is still growing, five weeks after the disc...
  161. The Commission this week conceded that more must be done to ensure the correct disbur...
  162. Feed ingredient prices at 17.04.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  163. Global sugar production is expected to swing from a surplus to a deficit of 2.4 milli...
  164. The European Commission this week defended a proposal to shift more financial respons...
  165. Feed ingredient prices at 24.04.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  166. Efforts by the EU to negotiate a new generation of trade deals with African, Caribbea...
  167. A vision of fewer, larger farms in the EU and more farmers engaged in non-farming act...
  168. Management Committee News Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/...
  169. Plans by the Commission to boost the role of emergency vaccination in controlling fut...
  170. New Zealand's meat export trade has been hit by 'war watching' as a decline in US res...
  171. Market situation: The EU egg market remains stable, with supply and demand in balance...
  172. UK farmers' organisations have given a lukewarm welcome to a Parliamentary committee ...
  173. Eastern European agricultural giants Poland and Hungary risk losing much of the cash ...
  174. EU member states could see guidelines from the European Commission by the summer on m...
  175. French analysts Strategie Grains have cut 1.5 million tonnes off their forecast for t...
  176. March 2003 Bread grain: Spring fieldwork reduced supplies from farms; in many region...
  177. UK farming leaders, meeting this week at a British Isles Farm Summit, expressed anger...
  178. The CAP must be reformed this year in the interests of Europe's consumers, taxpayers ...
  179. Slovakia may pay direct aids to its farmers next year at only 40% of the EU standard ...
  180. A legal challenge to restrictive Australian quarantine rules for food products was an...
  181. EU meat consumption, including poultrymeat, rose around 1% to an estimated 36.41 mill...
  182. The EU is likely to have to negotiate new import tariff concessions for agricultural ...
  183. The euro is trading weaker against the dollar this morning and slightly stronger agai...
  184. Global production of wheat, coarse grains and rice is expected to rise by 62 million ...
  185. Agricultural prices for the week ending April 11, 2003 UK Germany Netherlan...
  186. Measures agreed at EU level to tackle the spread of avian flu will from now on includ...
  187. Russia's newly introduced quotas on meat imports are severely damaging Danish pigmeat...
  188. The introduction of genetically modified (GM) canola (rapeseed) could boost the Austr...
  189. The avian flu virus, hitherto confined to the central Dutch province of Gelderland (s...
  190. Enlargement of the EU will deal a heavy blow to consumers and taxpayers in the accedi...
  191. Russia has become one of the world's top three wheat exporters in 2002/03 by exportin...
  192. eed ingredient prices at 10.04.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  193. Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market barley, German intervention ba...
  194. All over Europe the 2002/03 grain and oilseed crops have been hit by bad weather. In ...
  195. The EU took a great leap toward the most significant enlargement in its 46-year histo...
  196. German exports and imports of agricultural and food products declined in 2002, accord...
  197. Dutch minister of health and welfare Clemence Ross has ordered an investigation into ...
  198. (April 24) Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market barley and rye, ...
  199. The Italian government has approved a decree reforming the way in which EU milk quota...