Stories Collection

  1. 3.1 The seven European Treaties 1. The European Community (or, in strictly legal t...
  2. Feed ingredient prices at 10.10.02 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  3. The European Commission is to offer larger production quotas for a number of candidat...
  4. Wheat exports from Ukraine to Brazil have been shut down by the discovery of fungus i...
  5. The European Commission's four options for the future of the dairy regime will come u...
  6. Member states were split along north-south lines following a debate at this week's Fa...
  7. The European Commission's proposals for the mid-term review (MTR) of the European Com...
  8. Agricultural prices for the week ending October 11, 2002 UK Germany Netherl...
  9. The European Commission is being forced to take a more differentiated approach to its...
  10. Romania received a boost to its otherwise laggardly progress towards joining the Euro...
  11. Malaysian palm oil output kept ahead of offtake in September, but a potential recover...
  12. (October 17) Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 100 050 tonnes ...
  13. New Zealand sheepmeat especially lamb - has plenty of export markets with growth pote...
  14. The area of fully organic farmland has almost doubled in the last year, to 458 600 he...
  15. The Common Agricultural Policy has once again come under fire for its damaging impact...
  16. 1.1 General introduction 1. Agriculture has always been regarded as having a speci...
  17. Around eight out of ten farmers in the EU will escape plans to cut CAP direct payment...
  18. British wheat producers may be able to achieve good prices for high-quality product i...
  19. According to provisional results of the June 2002 census, there has been a decline in...
  20. Trailing the other candidate countries by a considerable margin, Bulgaria and Romania...
  21. EU governments will next week return, for the first time in months, to the thorny iss...
  22. A reduction by EU farmers' group Copa-Cogeca to its estimate of this year's EU grain ...
  23. The Commission's proposed shift from direct aid payments to rural development measure...
  24. A frustrating Council meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Luxembourg this week saw...
  25. EU top-up premia aimed at encouraging less intensive farming are doing little to chan...
  26. Grain exports from Ukraine could double in the next five years as farmers continue to...
  27. The US pig herd has grown over the last year, but liquidation now under way will mean...
  28. New research, published on Wednesday (October 9) by the British Royal Society *, sugg...
  29. The Polish government has formally approved a change to the country's negotiating sta...
  30. The principal proposals in the Commission's Mid Term Review of the CAP are necessary ...
  31. China may import 12.5 million tonnes of soyabeans in 2002/03 (October/September), up ...
  32. Feta cheese producers in countries such as Denmark and Germany have five years to pha...
  33. With the collapse of the devolved government in Northern Ireland the farming industry...
  34. The euro has lost ground against the dollar, but is stronger against the yen due to d...
  35. Whereas the global maize balance is looking tight for 2002/03, the EU market will pro...
  36. (October 17) Market situation: The EU egg market remains stable, with some sectors...
  37. Renate Kunast has retained her position as German minister of consumer affairs, food ...
  38. The poultry industry in the UK is allowing the use of two antibiotic growth promoters...
  39. Sales of agricultural machinery in France amounted to [euro]2.06 billion in the first...
  40. This year's UK wheat crop is around 15.8 million tonnes - higher than last year, but ...
  41. The EU's Court of Auditors has exposed serious flaws in the operation of the EU banan...
  42. COPA-COPEGA EU-15 2002 grain crop forecast (Area in '000 hectares; yield in tonnes p...
  43. Beef and sheepmeat production in the UK will fall dramatically by the end of the deca...
  44. Indonesian palm oil is stealing business on international markets from arch-rival Mal...
  45. After more than a month OT constantly sagging prices, Chicago wheat futures cartwheel...
  46. Feed ingredient prices at 17.10.02 (shipment dates of Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  47. Hopes for an inter-EU agreement on how to expand the CAP eastwards to encompass the 1...
  48. Big Russian, Ukrainian and EU soft wheat surpluses continue to contrast with dwindlin...
  49. The euro has slipped against the dollar since yesterday but has apparently not come u...
  50. Non-intensive methods of keeping layer hens are gaining ground in the EU, though they...
  51. The Austrian pig herd grew by nearly 3% to 3.38 million head in the year to June 2002...
  52. Large amounts of food from a [euro]400 million EU aid programme to Russia in the late...
  53. EU compound feed industry group FEFAC this week denounced plans by the European Commi...
  54. Pigmeat output in Poland is currently on the up while cattle farmers are slimming dow...
  55. German exports of meat and live animals rebounded firmly in the seven months of this ...
  56. This year's collapse in the US pig market was far more severe than the expected dip, ...
  57. Warning signals were flashing this week over the chances of completing the EU enlarge...
  58. The French foreign trade surplus for agricultural and food products was some [euro]21...
  59. An improvement in global sugar prices over the last few months may belie the fundamen...
  60. The UK's environment minister Michael Meacher has said he wants to become the "champi...
  61. A major issue in the forthcoming negotiations on the European Union's 'mid term revie...
  62. Brazil's sugar sector has been steering a stable course despite this year's large can...
  63. Official estimates of this year's German cereals crop have been revised downwards in ...
  64. 7.1 Establishment of the common policy 1. In adopting rules for the common organis...
  65. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 112 250 tonnes at a maximum r...
  66. Member states of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are evenly split into two camps o...
  67. Milk deliveries in Germany and the rest of the EU must move in opposite directions if...
  68. The BSE crisis helped to slash Austrian beef consumption to its lowest level for 40 y...
  69. (September 18) Market situation: The market is reasonably stable, although prices ar...
  70. French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has promised that France will press for th...
  71. According to the Danish Farm Unions' farm economics department, 2001 was a better yea...
  72. Austrian farmers are scoring an own goal by rejecting proposals for CAP reform outlin...
  73. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 66 000 tonnes at a maximum re...
  74. The Greek ministry of agriculture has announced a series of EU co-financed aid scheme...
  75. Candidate countries waiting to join the EU stuck to their guns over CAP accession ter...
  76. Prospects are still tumbling fast for the 2002/03 Australian wheat crop-which could n...
  77. Feed ingredient prices at 19.09.02 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  78. (September 13) Export refunds: No changes. Intervention sale: A total of 2 420 to...
  79. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  80. The European Commission has announced plans to impose a wheat import quota of 2.3 mil...
  81. The imposition of EU sanctions against the US in retaliation for controversial steel ...
  82. The choice of options for reform of the EU's dairy sector lies firmly in the hands of...
  83. French agriculture minister Herve Gaymard presented details of his 2003 agriculture b...
  84. A number of beer brewers in Asia are having to dilute the quality of their products i...
  85. The world supply of premium milling wheats is growing increasingly tight, according t...
  86. Dollar narrowly avoids euro parity The dollar narrowly avoided euro parity yesterd...
  87. The Cairns Group of agricultural exporting countries has issued a joint proposal on i...
  88. The UK is unlikely to start sending large tonnages of beef to France even if the Fren...
  89. Average monthly prices for selected commodities in [euro] and other national currenc...
  90. Recent comments about a large French grain harvest have been essentially confirmed by...
  91. The launching of the Cairns Group position on the import access issue in the Doha Rou...
  92. Pressure on Britain's poultry meat industry from overseas competition is not likely t...
  93. This week's shock estimate from Germany, that their potato harvest will be only 10.97...
  94. The French foreign trade surplus in agricultural and food products amounted to [euro]...
  95. The Dutch government this week admitted that the EU's budget to 2006 could handle enl...
  96. The leader of France's main farm union, the FNSEA, has warned that the country's farm...
  97. Canada announced on Thursday that it was withdrawing from the world market this year ...
  98. In a move designed to galvanise the anti-reformist stance in advance of this autumn's...
  99. A number of Asian soyabean meal buyers are having to shift their focus away from Indi...
  100. Britain's 'Over Thirty Month Scheme' (OTMS), under which cattle aged over 30 months a...
  101. Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention butter at reduced prices and aid for butter ...
  102. The EU on Friday morning published its long-awaited list of US products in the firing...
  103. EU farm ministers meet in Brussels next Monday for a renewed policy debate on Commiss...
  104. A severe drought, centred on the western plains states and the south-eastern US, is d...
  105. (September 26) Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 84 350 tonnes...
  106. Uruguay's beef exports have enjoyed a soaring recovery this year and should improve f...
  107. Wheat futures powered to new 5-year highs this week as wet North American spring whea...
  108. The French food safety agency AFSSA will assess later this month whether it regards B...
  109. Ukraine's grain harvest this year will amount to around 36.27 million tonnes, only sl...
  110. The United States is hopeful that its exports of beef to Japan, which have been dealt...
  111. Farms in some parts of Ireland still face major difficulties despite an improvement i...
  112. The European Commission on Thursday sent conflicting messages over plans to make vacc...
  113. The German sheep herd shrank by 2.5% in the 12 months to May 2002, according to the l...
  114. Another month of extreme and changeable weather sharpened the focus on maize and soya...
  115. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin this week announced that his government was prepa...
  116. The majority of the EU candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe registered a...
  117. The Australian cattle herd is still in a rebuilding phase, but recent drought problem...
  118. The EU's Court of Auditors has found faults with the CAP's oilseed regime resulting i...
  119. Average EU cattle prices have been strengthening gradually since April despite weak e...
  120. An open letter defending the CAP and rejecting the Commission's approach to the mid-t...
  121. The European Commission was this week forced to admit that its draft plan to limit li...
  122. Australia's drought-hit grain harvest is set to fall even further when new official f...
  123. Economic factors - 48% weakening in the Real in six months, just 1% growth in the eco...
  124. Six Irish counties that have been banned for six years from exporting beef to the Rus...
  125. Intervention stocks: EU cereal intervention stocks totalled a net 4.950 million tonne...
  126. The falling profitability of genetically modified (GM) crops, together with lower yie...
  127. (September 19) Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 88 700 tonn...
  128. Proposed changes to the National List Representations and Hearings system for new var...
  129. Speculation that this year's US maize yields have been underrated has combined with s...
  130. EU dairy farmers in nine member states could incur fines of some [euro]276 million be...
  131. The European Commission's proposals for cuts in cereals support received a rough ride...
  132. Europe's politicians - often accused of being obsessed with short-term expediency and...
  133. France is set to bounce back from last year's poor performance with soft wheat export...
  134. The Swiss milk market is currently under heavy pressure of supply, reports Agri, the ...
  135. Feed ingredient prices at 05.09.02 (shiment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  136. Australia's challenge to the EU's sugar regime reflects growing impatience with Europ...
  137. EU farm Commissioner Franz Fischler on Monday responded to criticisms of his 'mid-ter...
  138. Indonesia's rising palm oil production and its choice of export strategy pose a threa...
  139. The euro was on the advance against the dollar this morning as traders took profits f...
  140. Europe's political makeup hangs in the balance this weekend as Germany goes to the po...
  141. Are soyabean prices yet high enough to ration lower-than-expected supplies to meet st...
  142. Bread grain: EU markets were dominated by the new crops. Reports of good quality and ...
  143. Hungary's total grain crop (excluding maize) has fallen by 23% this year as compared ...
  144. EU sugar quotas will be reduced by 5.7% for the 2002/03 marketing year - the sharpest...
  145. French rapeseed exports to non-EU countries should soar almost 400% to 575 000 tonnes...
  146. Ireland's junior farm minister, Liam Aylward, has cited the benefits of the EU dairy ...
  147. A prolonged drought in parts of the United States means that ranchers and farmers wil...
  148. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  149. The weather of the next few days will be absolutely crucial to this season's wheat ex...
  150. The Irish Department of Agriculture has sent what it describes as a high level delega...
  151. Asia's big rapeseed importers may be in the market for more over the next few weeks f...
  152. German farmers' organisations provisionally estimate their losses due to the recent h...
  153. The European Commission this week pointedly declined to be drawn into a row between t...
  154. US biotechnology company Monsanto has accepted that it could take until at least 2005...
  155. The Irish department of agriculture has warned farmers joining in a protest over new ...
  156. Figures released this month by Eurostat, the EU's statistical arm, show a significant...
  157. New chances are opening up in the huge southern/eastern Asian wheat import market as ...
  158. The threat of chronic world-wide droughts, failing harvests, rocketing food prices, e...
  159. German agriculture minister Renate Kunast this week put the cost of flood damage to t...
  160. Very firm prospects for China's 2002/03 soyabean crop have placed yet another questio...
  161. The current debate on CAP reform, stemming from the Commission's mid-term review pape...
  162. Following a sharp decline during the 1990s, the value of Czech farm output has levell...
  163. Rapeseed exports from eastern Europe are unlikely to increase this year - despite a f...
  164. Subsidies on EU wheat exports may be about to sink back to zero -- and stay there for...
  165. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  166. Zambia has banned all imports of genetically modified (GM) foods including a shipment...
  167. The degree to which Germany-and eastern Germany in particular-will be impacted by the...
  168. While England's cereal areas have increased significantly, cattle, sheep and pig numb...
  169. The French cereals crop is expected to rebound to 68 million tonnes this year from 60...
  170. A diplomatic row between Iraq and Australia will not hit wheat trade between the two ...
  171. The French agri-food trade surplus amounted to [euro]522 million in June 2002, a redu...
  172. Australian cattle and beef prices have fallen faster than expected this year but shou...
  173. French agriculture minister Herve Gaymard ordered the processing of applications for ...
  174. Recent fidgets on sugar markets which had stayed flat and low for months do not presa...
  175. The European Commission has depicted a bleak future for many farms in Slovakia, facin...
  176. French livestock farming groups have written a joint protest letter to agriculture mi...
  177. The German pig herd is still growing, and more quickly than last year - a trend accom...
  178. The European Commission will discover in the next few days what level of sanctions it...
  179. Japan could hit beef imports with higher tariffs in 2003 after using similar protecti...
  180. Estimates of this year's cereal crops in Russia and Ukraine are climbing rapidly as t...
  181. The euro has fallen back sharply against the dollar and has also weakened against ste...
  182. Agricultural prices for the week ending August 16, 2000. UK Germany Nether...
  183. Hungary's 22 000 small dairy farmers, out of a total of 26 000 in the sector, will fa...
  184. The European Commission is likely to cut sugar production quotas for the 2002/03 mark...
  185. The Netherlands' trade surplus in agriculture and food products rose by 15% in the fi...
  186. The UK launched a top level broadside against the CAP's protectionist policies this w...
  187. (August 29) Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention butter at reduced prices and ...
  188. (August 29) Intervention stocks: EU cereal intervention stocks totalled a net 4.98...
  189. Intense talks this week between the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and the UK's depart...
  190. The implementation of the Commission's mid-term review (MTR) proposals for reform of ...
  191. The last thing millers wanted to hear in a year of disappointing US, Canadian and Aus...
  192. Cuba is scaling back sugar beet plantations for the 2003/04 harvest as its radical re...
  193. The livestock sector in Latvia has dwindled to a fraction of its farmer self as the c...
  194. The European Union's WTO commitments to allow access to key agricultural markets for ...
  195. Export tender adjudication: All bids to export grain from intervention storage were r...
  196. Higher yields should enable cereal producers to harvest the extra billion tonnes of g...
  197. Feed ingredient prices at 22.08.02 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  198. With domestic sales stagnant and exports to many markets falling off alarmingly, Braz...
  199. The rainstorms which recently lashed German fields over the crucial harvest period ha...