Stories Collection

  1. EU member state officials are heading for a showdown next week on the issue of direct...
  2. The US Senate on Wednesday gave its approval to a new Farm Bill which will boost subs...
  3. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 51 100 tonnes at a maximum re...
  4. The European Commission on Tuesday formally notified the World Trade Organisation of ...
  5. The EU sheep flock contracted by 5.3% or 5 million head in the year to December 2001,...
  6. British animal welfare lobby group 'Compassion in World Farming' (CIWF) has awarded t...
  7. The European Commission late last week defended its plans to allow new countries join...
  8. Profit margins for German pig fatteners, not particularly high in the early stages of...
  9. The EU is likely to be forced into further reform of its dairy regime by the middle o...
  10. Brazil's sugar industry need not feel threatened by a cane crop expected to be almost...
  11. EU farm Commissioner this week accused US lawmakers of putting livelihoods in the dev...
  12. Cracks have appeared once again this week between EU member states over the European ...
  13. Argentina will have little difficulty in keeping Brazil amply supplied with wheat des...
  14. European Commission officials on Friday attacked claims from Environmentalist group G...
  15. The BSE crisis helped to bring a flood of poultry meat imports into Germany in 2001 -...
  16. Food shortages are becoming critical in several southern African countries as harvest...
  17. A reshuffle at the top levels of the European Commission's agriculture policy Directo...
  18. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 89 000 tonnes at a maximum re...
  19. Initial expectations that the new 2002 Farm Bill in the United States would complete ...
  20. Farmers' union leaders from across the UK, meeting this week, have highlighted their ...
  21. German farm minister Renate Kunast this week nailed her colours firmly to the mast of...
  22. The copious terms of the United States' farm policy programme for the 2002-2006 perio...
  23. New Zealand sheepmeat exports in the season ending next September are estimated to be...
  24. Russia registered its largest-ever monthly grain export figures in March 2002. Market...
  25. Fears that the 60% devaluation of the peso would stimulate a flood of imports from Ar...
  26. Glanbia, Ireland's biggest milk buyer, is facing heavy criticism after announcing pla...
  27. EU farm Commissioner Franz Fischler this week gave a rare sneak preview of looming ch...
  28. The contrast in the politics and economics surrounding Europe's leading arable crops ...
  29. With the critical lambing period safely over, store and breeding markets in England a...
  30. The European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of draft plans to harmonise and ...
  31. The EU's latest confirmation of its ban on the use of hormones in beef production is ...
  32. EU farmers will in future have to earn their direct aid payments by following strict ...
  33. The European Commission this week prompted speculation of a renewed farm subsidy war ...
  34. Agricultural prices for the week ending May 10, 2002 UK Germany Netherlan...
  35. In his first public statement as French agriculture minister, Herve Gaymard has annou...
  36. Draft regulation suspending and opening tariff quotas for imports from Slovakia: Unan...
  37. Joe Walsh will almost certainly return as agriculture minister when the new Irish gov...
  38. Rumours that the EU Commission may be looking to slim down intervention beef stocks r...
  39. EU farm minister this week agreed a rollover of the current potato starch quotas and ...
  40. A weedkiller banned in farming for more than 20 years because of its link to cancer h...
  41. New French farm minister Herve Gaymard on Wednesday indicated that his government's s...
  42. Favourable spring weather and a rise in sowings may lift Bulgaria's 2002 wheat crop t...
  43. Russia is hatching plans to raise its tariff rate quota (TRQ) for raw-sugar imports b...
  44. The euro is trading broadly stronger against all the major currencies in a subdued mo...
  45. Grain and oilseed markets in the US wrestled this week with mixed weather news amid c...
  46. The much trumpeted liberalisation of American agriculture policy of the mid 1990s is ...
  47. Indonesian palm oil production should climb significantly this season and next, raisi...
  48. The French government has published a decree defining the concept of 'agriculture rai...
  49. Figures from Argentina's vegetable oil and meal sector have protested that new export...
  50. The hard-won compromise deals negotiated between the EU and applicant countries over ...
  51. Over the years Agra Europe has been an invaluable source of information and analysis ...
  52. Opponents of genetic modification demonstrated in front of the Italian ministry of ag...
  53. Farming incomes registered a major boost in parts of Eastern Europe last year, a new ...
  54. Poland is expected to get its hands on over half the rural development budget set asi...
  55. French wheat exports are likely to end 2001/02 many millions of tonnes down on last s...
  56. The complete abolition of the milk quota system could lead to a considerable milk sur...
  57. Agricultural prices for the week ending April 5, 2002 UK Germany Netherlands...
  58. The yen has slid for the second day back to the $1 = Y132.0 level after Japanese auth...
  59. The World Trade Organisation has issued the first drafts of documents that will event...
  60. EU health Commissioner David Byrne will present to EU farm ministers his proposal to ...
  61. Producer prices for EU lambs shot up by an average of 15% last year under the influen...
  62. There cannot be many of us left on the Agra Europe mailing list who remember the earl...
  63. The EU looks set to become ever more entrenched in its battle with the US over hormon...
  64. Soyabean producers in Brazil's southern area are ignoring the country's ban on planti...
  65. Italian durum wheat prices are taking a beating from large imports and fragile demand...
  66. The FRENCH cattle herd grew by 1% in the year to November 2001, according to the late...
  67. A surprise Chinese purchase of US wheat has left the international market uncertain h...
  68. The British beef sector is increasingly worried by the potential impact of a change i...
  69. So-called 'draft common positions' (DCPs) outlining the recommended EU approach to ne...
  70. EU scientists have ruled that the presence of the BSE agent in muscle tissue of mice,...
  71. Russia's s and Ukraine's substantial export trade in wheat and barley to the EU looks...
  72. The Czech Republic and Slovakia have joined the growing ranks of CEECs finally able t...
  73. More rainfall than expected last weekend across parched areas of the central US -- an...
  74. Austrian imports and exports of agricultural products grew significantly last year, a...
  75. A stubborn alliance of northern EU states this week risked holding up enlargement tal...
  76. Low meat prices in US shops signal a bean feast for consumers but hard times for catt...
  77. Strawberry production in the Mediterranean regions is declining again in the current ...
  78. The British pig herd was still showing annual decline at the end of last year, accord...
  79. Agricultural prices for the week ending March 29, 2002 UK Germany Nether...
  80. The FRENCH poultry sector seems to have lost last year's buoyancy as producer prices ...
  81. The European Commission on Tuesday unveiled its new strategy for expanding trade with...
  82. Last year's German grain harvest hit a record of 49.7 million tonnes, with increases ...
  83. France exported agricultural and food products worth a total of [pounds sterling]3 01...
  84. Polish grain production may drop nearly 3% to around 26.3 million tonnes this year, a...
  85. Negotiators from the US House of Representatives and Senate were poised to reach fina...
  86. EU oilseed production looks on course to bounce back from a low year in 2001 and shou...
  87. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  88. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  89. Japan's minister of agriculture has resisted calls for his resignation following the ...
  90. In its latest six monthly progress report on BSE in Great Britain, the Department for...
  91. Europe's small farms should club together for strength in numbers to ensure quality p...
  92. Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market common wheat were rejected. Bi...
  93. Detailed draft negotiating mandates for EU enlargement in the agriculture sector have...
  94. Market situation: The EU market for eggs is expected to improve as production gradual...
  95. Price and profit expectations should boost the acreage seeded to durum wheat, barley,...
  96. Poland is set to receive nearly 58% of the EU structural aid available to CEEC applic...
  97. Brazilian chicken exports continued to climb in the first two months of this year, wi...
  98. Common wheat appears to be the main beneficiary of extra acreage sown to cereals in F...
  99. Fresh calls in the US for tariff rate quotas (TRQs) on imports of Canadian wheat have...
  100. Turkey's wheat imports may drop back in 2002/03 (June/May) if good crop conditions bo...
  101. German foreign trade in agricultural and food products grew significantly in 2001, ac...
  102. The UK National Farmers' Union (NFU) this week launched a scathing attack on the Fren...
  103. Cattle, pigment and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  104. 1) Market situation: The price situation is generally stable, although some member st...
  105. Contraction in the French sheep flock should slow domestic sheepmeat production this ...
  106. With a large backlog in the government's testing programme, bovine tuberculosis (TB) ...
  107. The euro is ending the week firmly against the dollar (though less so against a resil...
  108. Prices for German slaughter pigs have been reasonable so far this year, but whether t...
  109. I congratulate you on this important anniversary. For several years, I have been a re...
  110. Within DEFRA, in the agricultural policy and press liaison sections, the latest copie...
  111. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 19 050 tonnes at a maximum re...
  112. The European Commission is expected to call next week on the African, Caribbean and P...
  113. Fat pig supplies in calendar 2002 are expected to be up on last year, according to th...
  114. UK research aimed at finding new early diagnostic tests for BSE has received a boost ...
  115. This season's already record-large world soyabean supply just keeps on growing, new s...
  116. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 107 750 tonnes at a maximum r...
  117. Agricultural prices for the week ending April 12, 2002 UK Germany Fat ca...
  118. Slightly lower poultry meat consumption in Japan should roughly counterbalance hindra...
  119. The dairy industries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have the potential to perform w...
  120. In his Annual Review and Outlook for agriculture, Irish farm minister Joe Walsh has d...
  121. Dutch broiler producers have succeeded in massively reducing the level of salmonella ...
  122. Legislation to collect an assessment on imported dairy products equal to the US$0.15/...
  123. US farmers intend to sow less wheat and soyabeans and slightly more maize than the ma...
  124. While the European Commission's recent 'Issues Paper' on application of European Unio...
  125. Total US pigmeat production this year is expected to be just 0.2% up on 2001 at aroun...
  126. For the second year in a row, Italy's agricultural production fell in 2001, by 1.1% i...
  127. Russia has delayed the lifting of its ban on US poultrymeat until the end of the week...
  128. Euro, yen capitalise on dollar weakness The euro has gained further ground against...
  129. The next Brazilian wheat crop may climb 20% as part of a drive to reduce the country'...
  130. The French foreign trade surplus in agricultural and food products amounted to [euro]...
  131. Meat purchases by French households fell in 2001 to their lowest level since 1996 -- ...
  132. Risk management tools such as futures markets can and should play a more extensive ro...
  133. The ongoing WTO negotiations on agriculture face a "crucial and probably intense" 12 ...
  134. France this week confirmed that it has no intention of lifting its ban on British bee...
  135. German scientists are claiming they are close to developing a method of testing live ...
  136. Agri-food exports from the Netherlands increased by 5.2% year-on-year in 2001, accord...
  137. Some pressure is coming to bear on Irish cattle prices but the market remains stronge...
  138. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) sees a divergent outlook ahead for Canadian common-whe...
  139. The European Commission will not be swayed by opposition to its proposals for eastwar...
  140. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 23 000 tonnes at a maximum re...
  141. A blueprint for reform of Europe's agriculture policy to be tabled by the German Gove...
  142. The yen sustained its rise against the dollar and the euro yesterday following a furt...
  143. If the UK's red-meat sector wants to beat off competition from imports, it will have ...
  144. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  145. Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention butter at reduced prices and aid for butter ...
  146. Production of beef, veal and pigmeat all dropped significantly in 2001, according to ...
  147. The building of battery cages for hens became illegal in Germany on March 13 when a n...
  148. The livestock industries of the eastern European countries about to join the European...
  149. A new report from the EU's scientific committee on animal welfare this week recommend...
  150. EU farm Commissioner Franz Fischler on Monday said World Trade Organisation members w...
  151. A move to expand the EU's "Everything but Arms' (EBA) trade initiative to cover all d...
  152. Russia's winter grain harvest in 2002 could be even higher than last year, following ...
  153. EU member states this week laid the contentious issues of aid to the tobacco and nuts...
  154. The conflict between UK food and farming policy aims and the still too rigid framewor...
  155. The EU will have to cut its subsidised sugar exports by more than half a million tonn...
  156. As predicted several weeks ago (AE1988, 1.2.02, N/4), French farm minister Jean Glava...
  157. Agricultural prices for the week ending February 22, 2002 UK Germany Net...
  158. The EU'S "rapid alert" system for notifying potential food scares should be expanded ...
  159. US maize futures took a battering this week as cancellations of Chinese purchases sti...
  160. China and the US have finally reached a compromise on Beijing's controversial new rul...
  161. The Northern Ireland department of agriculture has confirmed that it will not be seek...
  162. Chinese for meat of all varieties has grown steadily as its population grows wealthie...
  163. Agricultural prices for the week ending March 8, 2002 UK Germany Fat catt...
  164. Draft regulation amending and rectifying 1520/2000: Unanimous favourable opinion was ...
  165. The German farmers' union (DBV) has criticised the plans of environment minister jurg...
  166. Tesco, the leading UK supermarket group, has sparked a row over a plan to cut the pri...
  167. The French ministry of agriculture announced its plan for the eradication of the shee...
  168. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  169. Hungary and Estonia on Thursday became the second and third EU candidate countries to...
  170. Recent comments by the UK government about the need for greater co-operation and effi...
  171. The steep vegetable price rises seen at the beginning of the year resulted from weath...
  172. The cost of agricultural inputs rose by 7.1% in the Netherlands in 2001, compared wit...
  173. Germany's turkey meat producers led the recovery in national meat output in 2001, acc...
  174. The UK government took a first step towards a strategy for a more sustainable farming...
  175. The UK department for environment, food and rural affairs (DEFRA) banned livestock mo...
  176. Market situation: Milk production is reported to be varied across the EU. Seven membe...
  177. Congressional investigators in the US have published a report suggesting that the cou...
  178. Inlac, the Spanish dairy interprofessional organisation, is to intervene in the dispu...
  179. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 33 900 tonnes at a maximum re...
  180. The European Commission on Monday received a set-back in its long-term bid to end the...
  181. Market situation: The European market can be split into two tiers. The northern membe...
  182. The outlook for US poultry meat exports to Russia is still uncertain as haggling cont...
  183. The Italian agricultural institute Ismea has announced that agricultural imports for ...
  184. A deal has been agreed between the EU and Poland to resolve the thorny problem of the...
  185. Brazilian meat exports may build on last year's resounding success in 2002. However, ...
  186. The yen slipped again this morning to its lowest level this month with little support...
  187. Fat cattle: Liveweight except in Germany, Netherlands, France and Ireland. MLC wee...
  188. EU rapeseed output could make a comeback in 2002 by dint of larger sowings in Germany...
  189. Global wheat exports may calm down in 2002/03 from the current season's near-record, ...
  190. The yen is maintaining its firm bias against the dollar this morning on talk of repat...
  191. Generous purchases of feed wheat by the EU have pushed up estimates of global wheat t...
  192. UK sheep producers, especially those in Wales, have cause for optimism after quietly ...
  193. Milk quotas "will not be around after 2008", in the view of Erhard Schwinne, Director...
  194. Market situation: Most member states showed a drop in egg and chicken meat production...
  195. The European Commission's cheerful predictions of a recovery in EU beef exports may b...
  196. Argentina's more stringent taxes on soya exports will probably not blunt competitiven...
  197. Bread grain: Supply on EU markets built up from the middle of February. Wheat from we...
  198. Agricultural prices for the week ending March 15, 2002 UK Germany Fat ca...
  199. China will not be buying Canadian canola for some months, but fundamentals for the co...