Stories Collection

  1. A depressed international sugar market is likely to worsen with the news that China i...
  2. Trade ideas that soyabean production will be lower than expected, both in the US and ...
  3. Some 92% of Irish beef farmers intend to maintain or increase the size of their herds...
  4. All three options for reform of the EU sugar regime put forward by the European Commi...
  5. The US's pursuit of liberalised agricultural trade in the 1980s and 1990s has failed ...
  6. The Swedish 2003 grain crop is estimated at 5.50 million tonnes, virtually unchanged ...
  7. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  8. Prompt soyabean futures rocketed this week to their highest level in four months as t...
  9. Provisional results from the June 2003 agricultural census in England show that, whil...
  10. Agricultural prices for the week ending September 12, 2003 UK Germany Nethe...
  11. In its latest forecasts the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OE...
  12. Since Russia's implementation of import quotas for beef, pigmeat and poultrymeat in A...
  13. The UK government released the results of its 'GM Nation' public debate on genetic mo...
  14. Feed ingredients prices 25.09.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  15. Chinese wheat exports are seen reaching up to 1.8 million tonnes this year, including...
  16. Export tender adjudication: Export tenders for open market wheat, barley and rye rema...
  17. The EU's debate over the hopes and fears evoked by genetic modification in agricultur...
  18. The Ukrainian government announced plans on Monday to impose an export duty on barley...
  19. Differences in organic standards, together with different methods of subsidising orga...
  20. Taiwan has become New Zealand's fastest growing beef market, with sales in the curren...
  21. The issue of the impact of agricultural subsidies on developing countries was brought...
  22. Argentina has confirmed a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) among pigs in ...
  23. World: graiNsoya and demand estimates, September 2003 (million tonnes) Wheat (1) ...
  24. The euro's recent strong appreciation against the dollar, yen and sterling has run ou...
  25. Plenty of debate is in store at EU ministerial level over the 'co-existence' of genet...
  26. The WTO Doha Round was thrown into confusion late on Sunday after the Ministerial mee...
  27. Germany moved ahead of Spain to become the second-biggest beneficiary of the EU farm ...
  28. A transitional period in the EU nuts regime will probably leave Spain footing the bil...
  29. The Italian EU presidency will ask other member states to sign up to a new strategy t...
  30. Australian live cattle exports fell 32% to 64 078 head in July as a result of a signi...
  31. The plight of over 50 000 sheep, stranded in the Arabian Gulf for over a month has sp...
  32. Argentine soya planting are expected to grow in 2003/04, as strong prices and low pro...
  33. The euro has fallen back this morning against the dollar from yesterday's two-month h...
  34. Irish dairy farmers will experience a substantial drop in income over the coming year...
  35. New Zealand export lamb slaughterings for the 2002/03 season ending on September 30 i...
  36. In its latest Grain Market Report the International Grains Council (IGC) has lowered ...
  37. Late frosts and drought point to another small apple crop in the EU. Estimates from e...
  38. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 76 750 tonnes at a maximum re...
  39. Ireland is moving towards full decoupling of all arable and livestock premia from Jan...
  40. Canadian beef producers should be able to regain their US market share fairly quickly...
  41. The European Commission currently has no plans to impose a tax on EU cereals exports ...
  42. A broad coalition of stakeholders in agriculture has called for a thorough and detail...
  43. Agricultural prices for the week ending August 1, 2003 UK Germany Nether...
  44. Nearly half the number of people buying farms in Britain are not farmers, and they ar...
  45. French analyst, Strategie Grains, slashed its EU maize forecast on Thursday, saying o...
  46. Cattle pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  47. Israel, the world's fourth biggest supplier of the goose liver delicacy foie gras, ha...
  48. The EU remained comfortably within its WTO ceilings for subsidised exports in all the...
  49. Europe's single farm policy was once more under attack for its harmful effects on dev...
  50. In the first four months of this year, more boned broilermeat entered the German mark...
  51. The German beef sector would appear to be going through a deep recession. The herd ha...
  52. The UK dairy trade has been galvanised this week by the not entirely unexpected news ...
  53. The EU's cereals management committee on Thursday indefinitely suspended weekly expor...
  54. The structure of Israel's agricultural production will be overhauled at the start of ...
  55. For all their rhetoric about their free trade policies, both the US and New Zealand a...
  56. The German grain harvest is expected to be 10-15% below last year's flood depressed l...
  57. News that the EU Commission had rejected bids to export almost 1 million tonnes of wh...
  58. EU beekeepers will have to keep an eye open for a further two types of parasite follo...
  59. Canadian dairy producers are increasingly concerned about the impact on the industry ...
  60. In the first six months of 2003, Uruguayan exports of fresh and frozen beef totalled ...
  61. A Brazilian Federal tribunal said on Tuesday it has suspended until final judgement a...
  62. Canadian agriculture minister Lyle Vanclief this week announced two further measures ...
  63. The startling extent of this year's drop in EU wheat output (see preceding article) c...
  64. A brave attempt to fuse diverse national positions in global trade talks on agricultu...
  65. Feed ingredient prices at 28.08.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  66. Feed ingredient prices 21.08.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  67. A senior European Commission agriculture official has told sugar producers in African...
  68. The European Union and the United States vowed this week to work together to overcome...
  69. Hungary's drought-hit harvest should be completed this week, hut the crop is expected...
  70. The Irish research body Teagasc has published results of its National Farm Survey for...
  71. The EU and the US appear to be on a collision course with developing countries over t...
  72. Poland is facing a cut of up to 3 million tonnes--or 12%--in its grain harvest this y...
  73. The euro has continued to lose ground to all the major currencies this morning amid l...
  74. EU and US experts and diplomats are poring over US proposals for a compromise deal to...
  75. Ukraine, which is facing a significant grain shortage due to this year's severe droug...
  76. In 2002, German per capita beef and veal consumption rose 2.4kg to 12.3kg, showing th...
  77. As the EU's grain harvest enters the home straight and the hot, dry weather continues...
  78. Feed ingredient prices at 07.08.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  79. Agricultural prices for the week ending August 8, 2003 UK Germany Net...
  80. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 33 000 tonnes at a maximum re...
  81. Late last week, the US took steps to ease the import ban on Canadian beef, in place s...
  82. The new agricultural policy modalities paper for the next stage of the Doha Round neg...
  83. Massive growth rates in Chinese meat production over the next 30 years are indicated ...
  84. The French government has announced a comprehensive package of aid measures to compen...
  85. There will be no tax on EU cereals exports, despite a shortfall in domestic cereals s...
  86. The United States is facing the prospect of reductions in its maize and soyabean harv...
  87. The UK wheat crop is expected to be lower than first estimated which will mean stocks...
  88. The Global Dairy Alliance, which represents the principal non-subsidising dairy expor...
  89. The French agri-food foreign trade surplus amounted to 542 million [euro] in June thi...
  90. FRESH Trigger volumes for apples: These were set at 105% of average imports (42.07...
  91. The European Union's agriculture and food market is the most open to imports in the w...
  92. Thailand, Asia's largest exporter of raw sugar, last week approved plans to limit the...
  93. The right social security schemes could potentially slim down Poland's and Romania's ...
  94. Australia exported a record one million head of live cattle during the year to June 3...
  95. Feed ingredient prices at 14.08.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  96. Danish pig fatteners have long received lower returns than their counterparts in othe...
  97. Agricultural prices for the week ending July 25, 2003 UK Germany Netherl...
  98. New Zealand's Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd has adopted an ambitious vision of leade...
  99. France is heading for a grain harvest of just 56.5 million tonnes this year, down 19%...
  100. Ukraine will harvest a large maize crop this year but exports are unlikely to reach r...
  101. Ukraine has sold only half of its allocation of 360 000t of sugar import licenses at ...
  102. German farmers view their financial position now with even more pessimism than in Mar...
  103. Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market common wheat and barley, Germa...
  104. Welsh farmers are being paid 50% too much compensation for bovine tuberculosis (TB) b...
  105. German commodity analyst F.O. Licht has maintained its forecast made in April for the...
  106. After several seasons of poor returns, EU potato growers should benefit from better r...
  107. According to figures from state statistical offices, meat production in several East ...
  108. Japan said on Tuesday it would impose emergency tariffs on beef and pork imports for ...
  109. On Tuesday, European farmers organisation COPA-COGECA cut its forecast for the EU's c...
  110. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  111. A new compromise document on farm trade drafted by the EU and US was published this w...
  112. This week's EU-US plan to revive WTO agricultural talks has run into a thicket of que...
  113. Australian grain markets have settled into a holding pattern as traders anxiously wat...
  114. Canada is set to bounce back from last year's drought with a wheat harvest in 2003 of...
  115. The long-awaited legal challenge to the EU's sugar regime will finally materialise ne...
  116. The EU's beef intervention "mountain" is close to disappearing following the abolit...
  117. Expectations of a stabilisation in the EU dairy market, for which there had been some...
  118. The French ministry of agriculture's statistics agency SCEES this week revoked grain ...
  119. The EU's new-look CAP will give the Union room for manoeuvre in agricultural discussi...
  120. A new study showing the economic and environmental benefits of genetically modified (...
  121. The euro is suffering from broad-based losses against all the major currencies this m...
  122. Provincial agriculture ministers are urging the Canadian government to restrict beef ...
  123. The European Commission is in the closing stages of negotiations on a new trade deal ...
  124. Russia may restrict poultrymeat imports from the EU after July 11 when the ban on exp...
  125. The ongoing drought has produced a sharp slump in the value of dairy exports by Austr...
  126. Crosswinds buffeted wheat markets this week as constantly growing US production estim...
  127. Genetically modified (GM) crops could offer cost and convenience advantages to UK far...
  128. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 23 000 tonnes at a maximum re...
  129. Despite economic difficulties over the past year, Argentine poultrymeat production ha...
  130. The Philippines expects to have to import more maize to meet demand in October after ...
  131. Reports of large Chinese orders for soyabeans and oil dominated trading on the Chicag...
  132. In the first five months of this year Brazilian broilermeat exports to eastern Europe...
  133. The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced on July 10 that it would recommend the r...
  134. During the first four months of this year total French pigmeat and live pig exports r...
  135. An agreement on 'modalities' for a WTO agreement on reducing agricultural subsidies "...
  136. EU beef and veal production in 2003 is forecast to fall, as figures from Eurostat ind...
  137. The British government published its proposals for a 'joined-up' strategy for animal ...
  138. The Spanish winter cereals mainly wheat and barley - harvest is expected to total 17....
  139. Despite remaining a net poultrymeat importer, Chinese poultrymeat purchases dropped 4...
  140. Help is at hand for farms in EU regions affected by this summer's widespread drought,...
  141. UK Germany Netherlands Fat cattle [euro]/100kg 137.19 224.00 ...
  142. US officials have hit out against the EU's plans to renegotiate its WTO commitments o...
  143. Farmers in western Canada increased their canola (rapeseed) plantings by 21% to 11.6 ...
  144. The tenth German milk quota auction on July 1 saw quotas change hands at a national a...
  145. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 50 000 tonnes at a maximum re...
  146. There is now little doubt that the changes in the European Union's agriculture policy...
  147. South Africa could see its wheat crop slide by up to a quarter in 2003/04, due to dry...
  148. Sweden is in the throes of by far the largest outbreak of salmonella seen in the coun...
  149. The text of the CAP reforms agreed politically in Luxembourg last month will not now ...
  150. The euro made further modest gains against the dollar and rose to a one-week high ver...
  151. Broad legal discretion for EU member states and free choice for individual farmers an...
  152. Sales of agrochemicals for farming in Denmark last year increased by 5% in terms of t...
  153. French farmers are facing serious feed shortages and rapidly decreasing yields due to...
  154. The United States will be obliged to re-start WTO dispute proceedings in its complain...
  155. European potato futures prices have risen sharply this week in response to forecasts ...
  156. Outline proposals for reform of the common market organisations (CMOs) for Mediterran...
  157. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 9 500 tonnes at a maximum ref...
  158. The adoption of new rules of product origin by the EU's trading partners in the Medit...
  159. A dark cloud is gathering over the EU's newly-revised approvals process for Genetical...
  160. EU agriculture ministers are expected to press the European Commission for details of...
  161. Brazil's exports of fresh, chilled and frozen beef rose by 68% in the first six month...
  162. Agricultural tractor registrations in the UK totalled 7 456 units in the first six mo...
  163. Active cattle marketings and limited placements due to the Canadian BSE problem are e...
  164. Following months of bitter argument, the Italian government has at last won the right...
  165. eed ingredient prices at 17.07.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  166. The European Commission this week defended its proposals for an animal transport Regu...
  167. Contrary to the belief of some participants in last month's reform of the CAP, pressu...
  168. Feed ingredient prices at 24.07.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  169. Italy's presidency of the EU began in the worst possible way this week, when a huge g...
  170. The German food ministry has had its funding cut in the draft 2004 budget presented t...
  171. In 2003, EU sheepmeat production is expected to stabilise, all be it at a low level, ...
  172. Last week meat protocols were established between China and Australia which will open...
  173. The fate of the dairy sector is emerging as a key area of concern among some EU farme...
  174. The EU is set to pay out a maximum of [euro]30.7 billion from 2007 onwards on the Sin...
  175. The system for financing and managing the EU's rural development programmes needs to ...
  176. Working paper on recasting of regulations 1520/2000, 3223/93 and 3615/92: A second di...
  177. Edible oil imports by India, the world's largest buyer, are expected to rise 15% in t...
  178. Austria, Belgium, Greece and Italy will have to explain to the European Court of Just...
  179. With the August 1 introduction of increased Japanese beef import tariffs looming, bot...
  180. On Thursday, French analyst Strategie Grains slashed its EU 2003 grain crops estimate...
  181. The EU is far more open to agricultural imports than some of its trade partners frequ...
  182. The EU has identified more than food and drink product names which it will seek to de...
  183. Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market barley, and German, French and...
  184. The Dutch avian flu nightmare appears to be almost over, as the EU acted this week to...
  185. The EU's 2003 grain crop forecast has been lowered to just below 200 million tonnes, ...
  186. Sections of the animal rights lobby are not reassured by what they hear about the Eur...
  187. Following the June 26 CAP reform agreement, attention in Central and Eastern Europe i...
  188. Brazil, Australia and Thailand this week formally announced their intention to reques...
  189. Agricultural price for the week ending July 4, 2003 UK Germany Netherlands ...
  190. Israel and the EU are poised to agree to substantial liberalisation of agricultural t...
  191. Details of the EU's new dairy regime following last month's comprehensive CAP reform ...
  192. Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention butter at reduced prices and aid for butter ...
  193. Market situation: EU poultry and egg markets remain relatively stable, but average eg...
  194. Developing countries who enjoy preferential access to the EU sugar market have attack...
  195. With the recent adoption of new labelling and traceability laws, there is now no need...
  196. The Commission has promised that forthcoming negotiations on the EU's financial persp...
  197. German farmers are continually reducing their cattle herds, while pig and sheep numbe...
  198. Agricultural prices for the week ending July 11, 2003 UK Germany Netherlands...
  199. After a bad year in 2001, household consumption of fresh meat in Belgium recovered a ...