Stories Collection

  1. Agricultural prices for the week ending January 19, 2003 UK Germany Nether...
  2. EU beef production could fall by 6% by 2010 as a direct result of the introduction of...
  3. EU farm Commissioner Franz Fischler will formally present his Mid-Term Review (MTR) p...
  4. Long-awaited rains in South Africa have reduced the danger of a significant year-on-y...
  5. The current mid-term review of the European Union's agriculture policy should be aime...
  6. While UK farm income rose 15% overall last year, farmers in Northern Ireland were hit...
  7. Feed ingredient prices at 30.01.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  8. The ineffectiveness of traditional agricultural subsidies in actually improving incom...
  9. The Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers' Association (ICMSA) has claimed that average farm ...
  10. Feed ingredient prices at 16.01.03 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  11. Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market rye, Finnish intervention barl...
  12. The depletion of Canada's oat supplies has handed a larger share of the vital US mark...
  13. EU farm Commissioner Franz Fischler this week finally unveiled his long-awaited plans...
  14. The UK government has decided to reduce the '20-day standstill' rule to six days for ...
  15. EU milk quotas are to be increased by a total of 3.5% (for most member states) over t...
  16. German rye plantings have shrunk dramatically as farmers face the threat that EU subs...
  17. The Spanish agriculture ministry has held steady at 4.3 million tonnes its estimate o...
  18. The European Union was the main target of blame after last week's meeting of the WTO ...
  19. Surprisingly strong US soya bean export sales in recent weeks have suggested that sup...
  20. EU enlargement will lead to a doubling of the income gap between Europe's richest and...
  21. The European Commission's ambitions for thorough reform of the CAP were dampened on M...
  22. Reduced production of major agricultural products, the elimination of intervention st...
  23. The decline in BSE cases in all parts of Great Britain is continuing, according to th...
  24. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 10 000 tonnes at a maximum re...
  25. The global grain market can expect lower prices in 2003/04 unless North America and /...
  26. Agricultural prices for the week ending January 17, 2003 UK Germany Nether...
  27. Despite a sharp increase in beef imports, Italy's trade deficit in agricultural produ...
  28. Objections by France and Ireland have blocked agreement on the EU's submission to the...
  29. Bulgaria's 2002/03 wheat exports could get close to 1 million tonnes, matching the hi...
  30. EU farm prices fell by 4.0% in real terms in 2002, according to a new report by the E...
  31. The slaughter of a flock of 4 100 goats--the biggest in Europe--as a precaution again...
  32. Poland's grain harvest totalled 26.8 million tonnes in 2002, down 0.5% from 2001's ou...
  33. European Union pig production rose by more than 10% in the last five years of the las...
  34. EU farm ministers agreed on Tuesday to ban poultry and eggs from only California, Ari...
  35. US seasonal ending stocks of grains and oliseeds are far less tight than expected a m...
  36. After increasing the number of cattle tested for BSE from 5 272 in 2001 to 19 990 las...
  37. Reaction to the Mid-Term Review proposals for CAP reform, released in Brussels on Wed...
  38. The German beef sector is still contracting sharply, characterised by a shrinking cat...
  39. Nitrogen use on British farmland fell to the lowest level for many years in 2001, acc...
  40. Export refunds: The number of refunds available for live animals was reduced from 29 ...
  41. Abattoirs EU-wide could face criminal charges if they do not meet EU hygiene rules, a...
  42. Implementation of the European Commission's plans for reform of the Common Agricultur...
  43. The structural and cyclical contraction of the British pig herd may prove to be less ...
  44. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 8 000 tonnes at a maximum ref...
  45. The politically vital issue of the rate at which actual levels of direct aid payments...
  46. French dairy farmers obstructed milk lorries on farms and at dairy entrances across t...
  47. Indian traders are confident of lifting sugar exports this season to make inroads int...
  48. Sharp frosts in late December and early January may have harmed some winter barley an...
  49. Belgian agricultural income fell by 12% to a total of [euro]1.58 billion in 2002. Due...
  50. New Zealand's sheep meat exports to the UK climbed by 5.8% last year in a 'rebalancin...
  51. Market situation: The Commission reported that prices for 2002 were, on the whole, no...
  52. Decoupled payments Most subsidies will be 'de-coupled' from production, and rolled...
  53. German farmers continue to face a difficult economic situation, according to the late...
  54. The British sheep sector is recovering from the nightmare of 2001 in terms of prices,...
  55. The French cattle herd shrank by 2.7% to 19.7 million head in the year to November 20...
  56. Agricultural prices for the week ending January 24, 2003 UK Germany Nether...
  57. In a provocative article, the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag has predicted t...
  58. Brazil is planning to cut the proportion of cane-based ethanol mixed into blended gas...
  59. Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention butter at reduced prices and aid for butter ...
  60. Argentina's 2002/03 wheat harvest may be the smallest in five years as wheat emerges ...
  61. Extensive livestock sector interests concentrated in the UK, Ireland and France are c...
  62. New legislation to introduce quotas on imports of beef, pig meat and poultry meat int...
  63. Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention butter at reduced prices and aid for butter ...
  64. Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market barley and rye, Finnish interv...
  65. Poland is stretching the already worn patience of the European Commission even thinne...
  66. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/ 100kg) Cattle ...
  67. The European Commission is to set national annual ceilings for de-coupled aid payment...
  68. EU farm Commissioner Franz Fischler this week issued a clear warning that an element ...
  69. The Commission is aiming to cut almost [euro]l5bn off farmers' payments from 2006 to ...
  70. Non-Annex I balance as foreseen in Regulation 1488/2001, Article 2: The Commission pr...
  71. A report prepared for the Irish department of agriculture on the impact of decoupling...
  72. The past onion season was very disappointing for many exporters from outside the EU, ...
  73. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle * ...
  74. Falling pig meat prices wiped around 85% off Danish producers' profits in 2002, raisi...
  75. The French foreign trade surplus for food and agriculture products in November 2002 a...
  76. From Stefan Tangermann, Director for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries at OECD: Sir,...
  77. Market situation: The EU egg market has made a slow start to the new year, with sever...
  78. French new tractor registrations increased by 7.7% to 38 192 in 2002, according to th...
  79. The lobby group for the European biotech industry, EuropaBio, has offered a highly qu...
  80. Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention butter at reduced prices and aid for butter ...
  81. Falling sheep numbers in Germany belie firm prices and solid market prospects, accord...
  82. UK farm minister Margaret Beckett has announced a series of new measures, backed by [...
  83. The aid charity Oxfam has this week assailed EU dairy subsidies, stating in a new rep...
  84. Euro soars against dollar The euro is continuing to soar in value against the US d...
  85. New Zealand's dairy, meat and deer industries are combining in the use of modern biot...
  86. Feed ingredient prices at 12.12.02 (shipment dates cif Ritterdam unless stated) ...
  87. The heads of government of the 15 EU member states and 10 candidate ountries were wit...
  88. New EU regulations about to enter into force with regard to layer hens should cut the...
  89. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreed on Tuesday to speed up entry for poor count...
  90. Export tender adjudication: Bids to export Finnish intervention barley and German int...
  91. Agricultural prices for the week ending December 6, 2002 UK Germany Netherla...
  92. Ukraine has been shrugging off speculation that its wheat exports could be checked by...
  93. Rumours of an early end to the British Over-Thirty-Month Scheme (OTMS) are again circ...
  94. Plans to impose tariff rate quotas (TRQs) on EU imports of barley and middle-/low-qua...
  95. Market situation: The Commission reported that prices were stable overall, but apprec...
  96. Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, has criticised government backing in the UK for super...
  97. Milk powder export refund rates were slashed for the second time in the space of a we...
  98. Market situation: The EU egg market remains in balance, with a positive price trend a...
  99. US end-season maize stock forecasts ground lower still this week as the United States...
  100. The average income of full time, family-run farms in Germany fell by 12.9% between Ju...
  101. Figures published by the European Commission on Monday show an EU cereals market in g...
  102. This year's poor conditions in Canada have hacked around 17% from the country's s gra...
  103. Canada's canola growers and oilseed processors have asked the provincial governments ...
  104. The European Union is set to offer the 10 candidate countries (CCs) countries the opt...
  105. EU environment ministers agreed the text of a draft regulation for the labelling and ...
  106. No let up in Sweden's desire radically to overhaul the CAP was in evidence as Christe...
  107. Agricultural prices for the week ending October 25, 2002 UK Germany Nether...
  108. Advances paid out to cereal farmers this year to help them recover from floods and dr...
  109. A reduction in New Zealand farm incomes is likely in the year to June 2003, due to co...
  110. Forecasts of Australia's 2002/03 wheat crop are heading dangerously close to the very...
  111. Global vegetable oil consumption should continue its unbroken upward trend of the pas...
  112. There has been a decline in membership of cooperatives in nearly all sectors of Dutch...
  113. The EU's sugar sector has been in the news recently for political reasons as competit...
  114. The EU milk market is certainly more stable now than a few months ago, with supply an...
  115. Prices for French heifers have been struggling this year as the medium-term effects o...
  116. The act of EU enlargement may be delayed by a few months to allow more time for the 1...
  117. Argentina is aiming to relaunch beef exports to Canada next March and to the US soon ...
  118. A provisional date of May 1 2004 for EU expansion eastward was agreed by EU foreign m...
  119. This year's Spanish maize harvest is nearly 500 000 tonnes smaller than last year's, ...
  120. (November 28) Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market common wheat,...
  121. The CAP mid-term review process will not by itself be the tonic to cleanse Europe's m...
  122. Considerable confusion on the future path of reform of the European Union's Common Ag...
  123. Export tender adjudication: Bids to export rye from German intervention stocks were r...
  124. (November 7) Export tender adjudication: Bids to export open market common wheat, ba...
  125. African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states enjoying preferential trading status with...
  126. One of Ireland's top dairy farmers and businessmen, with farming interests in Ireland...
  127. The average UK farmland price stabilised in the 3rd quarter of 2002 at [pounds sterli...
  128. The euro has dropped back against the dollar this morning, but still remains above pa...
  129. Drastic cuts in Dutch livestock numbers, particularly of pigs, may be inevitable if E...
  130. This year's productivity in fields given over to summer crops in France has been fair...
  131. Flemish agriculture minister Vera Dua has announced that the aid programme for pig fa...
  132. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 47 050 tonnes at a maximum re...
  133. Wheat stocks held by the world's five largest exporters are heading towards a seven-y...
  134. World ethanol production this year will reach 32.7 billion litres - almost 6% more th...
  135. Flocks of organic chickens are more likely to carry the campylobacter food poisoning ...
  136. Sales of fertiliser to German farmers fell in the 2001/2002 marketing year in most ca...
  137. Agricultural prices for the week ending November 8, 2002 UK Germany Netherla...
  138. The Philippines may scale back imports of milling wheat in 2003 and also rely on a wi...
  139. The Hungarian pigmeat industry may have a period of stagnation ahead of it as poultry...
  140. The current freeze on approvals of new Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in the E...
  141. US soyabean producers are continuing to enjoy boom demand from both overseas and dome...
  142. The EU and Czech Republic have struck a deal aimed at further liberalising mutual far...
  143. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices (Euro/100kg) Cattle ...
  144. Fat cattle: Liveweight except in Germany, Netherlands, France and Ireland. MLC wee...
  145. The euro is trading stronger this morning against the dollar and the yen after a bett...
  146. Agricultural prices for the week ending November 1, 2002 UK Germany Nether...
  147. Pig numbers in the Netherlands declined by 9.7% between August 2001 and August 2002, ...
  148. A 27% increase in Sweden's meat imports in the year to September was enough to handle...
  149. Amidst the media furore at last month's Brussels Summit over the Franco-German deal o...
  150. The European Commission the week announced its anticipated deal with the US and Canad...
  151. The EU may be prepared to offer an improved deal on direct aid payments for farmers i...
  152. Agricultural prices for the week ending November 15, 2002 UK Germany Nethe...
  153. (November 15) Intervention sale (unrestricted end use): A total of 3 602 tonnes of i...
  154. Interest in bioethanol as a renewable transport fuel to replace petrol is soaring int...
  155. (November 19) Market situation: The EU egg market remains stable, with some member...
  156. Full compliance with the voluntary country-of-origin labelling provision in the 2002 ...
  157. EU sources conceded this week that the Danish Presidency may have been too generous i...
  158. Agreement between EU heads of state and government late last week to freeze CAP spend...
  159. European heads of government reached agreement late last Friday on a formula for enla...
  160. The debate over the future of EU dairy quotas heated up on Thursday as a new study pr...
  161. EU farm Commissioner Franz Fischler this week continued his campaign to keep the mome...
  162. Wheat exports from Russia may spiral upwards to 9-10 million tonnes in 2002/03 (July/...
  163. (November 7) Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 24 000 tonnes a...
  164. Poland's pigmeat 'mountain' is set to grow further next year, while the price of live...
  165. The European Commission's plans for a new system to regulate the EU's grain imports h...
  166. The low world stock/use ratio that helped fuel strong wheat prices through most of th...
  167. By the end of the decade, about 20% of arable land in the UK could be devoted to grow...
  168. Feed ingredient prices at 21.11.02 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless stated) ...
  169. (November 21) Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 20 250 tonnes ...
  170. Irish agriculture has been hit by a round of budget cuts as the government reduces sp...
  171. The euro is still holding above parity with the dollar this morning but is weaker tha...
  172. The European Commission has made an improved offer to the United States and Canada on...
  173. The transfer of funds from market support to rural development and agri-environmental...
  174. EU farm Commissioner Franz Fischler warned candidate countries to the EU (CEECs) not ...
  175. An 'asymmetrical' cut in the EU intervention prices for butter and skimmed milk powde...
  176. The euro has been climbing strongly against the dollar this morning, well above parit...
  177. The Danish herd was 1.3% larger in October than twelve months previously, comprising ...
  178. Total EU wheat imports in 1999-2001 (in tonnes) 1999 2000 2001 Tot...
  179. November 14 Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention butter at reduced prices and ...
  180. The EU faced calls to produce long-awaited concrete proposals for farm trade negotiat...
  181. The second quarter of this year saw a sharp fall in the price of farm produce in the ...
  182. British cattle farmers who cut down the number of animals they keep are being urged b...
  183. Russian ambitions for a major expansion of grain exports in the medium term may be ov...
  184. CAP spending will climb by almost [euro]4.5bn by 2013, outstripping the rise in the o...
  185. The European Commission has this week been engaged in a detailed analysis of last Fri...
  186. Breeding stock numbers in the UK pig industry appear to be stabilising after the dram...
  187. Export refunds: Refunds were increased in respect of Egypt in. order to encourage the...
  188. The UK government this week launched proposals for a new industry body to encourage m...
  189. 10A. 1 Early development 1. The EU's grain market regime was originally set up...
  190. 6.1 EU: Key statistic Employment in agric., ...
  191. Ukraine's pork industry is expanding as the cattle herd shrinks, dogged by falling pr...
  192. (October 10) Regulation 2571/97 (Sale of intervention butter at reduced prices and...
  193. Meat production in Russia is gathering pace, favoured by a growing home market, cheap...
  194. Appendix 14. Guaranteed prices for ACP preferential quota sugar ...
  195. Government support to agriculture in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe rose...
  196. Appendix 15. ACP Preferential sugar import quotas (tonnes white sugar equivalent) ...
  197. The euro was gathering strength against the yen this morning amid ongoing uncertainty...
  198. The process of EU enlargement moved a big step closer to completion on Wednesday as t...
  199. Appendix 1. Import tariffs and custom duties CN Code Category ...