Stories Collection

  1. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices ([euro]/100kg) Cattle ...
  2. Prospects for global harvests of the major cereal crops this year have been upgraded ...
  3. The 'framework' text for the WTO Doha Round negotiations which was finally agreed by ...
  4. New Zealand meat exporters are in danger of losing valuable markets as the EU has fai...
  5. The yen took a hit overnight as surprisingly weak Japanese growth data cast doubt ove...
  6. The UK beef farming industry is predicted to lose 40 million [pounds sterling] this y...
  7. EU export subsidies are to be abolished, and import tariffs substantially reduced, un...
  8. US producers who could have sold into new crop soyabean futures back in June at almos...
  9. German consumption of fresh button mushroom rose by 3.5% in the 1st half of this year...
  10. Written contracts between producers and traders may be introduced in France to protec...
  11. Pig farmers from throughout Ireland are due to meet in County Laois today (August 13)...
  12. The USDA raised its world wheat production estimate for 2004/05 by over 10 million to...
  13. The European Commission has given EU-15 member states an extra year to decide how to ...
  14. Danish farm minister Mariann Fischer Boel seems likely to become the EU's new Agricul...
  15. Northern Europe is currently gripped by a heat wave interrupted by occasional thunder...
  16. Feed ingredient prices at 19 August, 2004 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless state...
  17. In its recent report on the operation of the European Union's fruit and vegetable mar...
  18. Demand from other EU states for Polish dairy products is boosting exports to record l...
  19. Scotland has confirmed that it is to apply a "national envelope" of 10%, as from the ...
  20. Management Committee News Agricultural prices for the week ending August 6, 2004 ...
  21. The first stage of the reductions in intervention prices on the milk market under CAP...
  22. Notes to weekly agricultural prices Fat cattle: Liveweight except in Germany, ...
  23. The EU's sugar export system has taken a knock in a provisional report from a WTO pan...
  24. The value of Danish agricultural exports in the first four months of 2004 totalled ju...
  25. Exports of fresh and frozen poultry from Thailand were restricted to just 26 600 tonn...
  26. The number of French farms in operation last year totalled close to 600 000 units, co...
  27. Favourable weather conditions have spurred the French cereal crops to an estimated 66...
  28. Next to the re-opening of the US border to live cattle from Canada, "increasing slaug...
  29. Feed barley exports from Russia and the Ukraine have pressured world prices to levels...
  30. Private forecasters the Australian Wheat Forecasters Pty Ltd has upped it's estimate ...
  31. The European Commission has heaped praise upon changes made to the EU's fruit and veg...
  32. Ukraine could see its grain harvest double in 2004, as against the previous year, to ...
  33. Around 120 fruit and vegetable growers from the Vaucluse region of southeastern Franc...
  34. The more stable weather conditions of the past few days have enabled German farmers t...
  35. The French government has issued a public statement condemning the destruction of GM ...
  36. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices ([euro]/100kg) Cattle ...
  37. The price of farmland in Great Britain in the 2nd quarter of this year was up 16% on ...
  38. Australian live cattle exports rose sharply during the second quarter of this year on...
  39. The longer Japan retains its ban on US beef imports, now in its eighth month, the har...
  40. French poultrymeat exports declined 7% in the first quarter of this year compared wit...
  41. A survey by Dairy Farmers of Canada has revealed lower retail prices for milk in Cana...
  42. This year's Polish grain area amounts to 8.1 million hectares, up 3.9% on 2003, accor...
  43. This week's yen recovery was extended as the currency rose to a four-week high agains...
  44. Swedish cereal production is forecast at 5.87 million tonnes this year, up from 5.35m...
  45. France is set to receive a boost of over 20% in the amount of funding which is to rec...
  46. Russian grain exports will need increased government support in the June 2004-June 20...
  47. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmat representative prices ([euro]/100kg) Cattle ...
  48. Feed ingredient prices at 12 August, 2004 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless state...
  49. Agricultural pollution of surface water in the Belgian region of Flanders has increas...
  50. Irish farm incomes increased by 0.9% on average in 2003, according to the National Fa...
  51. The euro was trading at its highest levels against the dollar since Monday in Europe ...
  52. German egg prices remain very low and consumer demand is clearly weaker than last yea...
  53. Agreement on a framework for the continuation of multilateral WTO trade talks--includ...
  54. Japan was Australia's most valuable export market for red meat in the financial year ...
  55. South American trading bloc Mercosur is confident of reaching a trade deal with the E...
  56. China has discovered a deadly strain of bird flu for the first time in pigs, a develo...
  57. Notes to weekly agricultural prices Fat cattle: Liveweight except in Germany, ...
  58. The EU will abandon its ban on imports of poultry from Texas as from next Monday (Aug...
  59. Total production of sheep and goat meat in the EU-15 this year will be much the same ...
  60. The European Commission has welcomed the new framework WTO agreement, saying that it ...
  61. Germany produced 1.59 million tonnes of meat in the second quarter of this year, up 3...
  62. European Commission officials this week once again expressed their distaste for the b...
  63. The EU-25 grain crop forecast has been raised to 277.4 million tonnes mainly due to b...
  64. Legal experts at the European Commission on Wednesday cleared future EU farm Commissi...
  65. Only 53.9% of Welsh farmers get more than 65% of their income from their holdings, ac...
  66. The area planted to blueberries has been expanded markedly in a number of EU countrie...
  67. Following a considerable decline in area over recent years, the Netherlands is expect...
  68. While agriculture's share of the Dutch economy has been declining generally (see AE21...
  69. EU finance ministers have told the European Commission to trim its spending plans for...
  70. While Danish pig producers recorded record high average annual losses in 2003, dairy ...
  71. Some 1 868 Belgian farms went out of business in the past year, according to provisio...
  72. The Austrian environmental organisation Global 2000 has seized on figures from the Eu...
  73. Former Danish farm minister Mariann Fischer Boel is to be the new European Commission...
  74. The average slaughter pig price on the Czech market has stabilised at between CKr 37 ...
  75. The combination of the World Trade Organisation decision on the legality of the Europ...
  76. A new nationwide survey sponsored by the American Corn Growers Association (AGCA) fou...
  77. A stable herd and improving productivity sharply reduced the drop in UK pig slaughter...
  78. Free trade talks between the EU and Mercosur have struck a hiatus as negotiators seek...
  79. A bumper maize crop in China is likely to induce the Beijing government to vastly inc...
  80. Brazil's poultry exporters are celebrating a record first half of 2004. A total of 1....
  81. EU pigmeat production is expected to increase slightly, by 0.3%, to 17.837 million to...
  82. The EU-25 is set to export 24.1 million tonnes of grain to third countries in 2004/05...
  83. German poultrymeat consumption in 2003 returned to the record level of the "BSE year"...
  84. Rice yields decline 15% for each degree of global warming, according to research by s...
  85. The UK department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) unveiled plans on F...
  86. Fat cattle: Liveweight except in Germany, Netherlands, France, Ireland. MLC weekly...
  87. Strong world prices make it seem likely that Brazil will export up to 25 000 tonnes o...
  88. The Council of EU farm ministers on Monday failed to reach agreement on the authorisa...
  89. EU dairy markets proved generally stable in the run-up to the cuts in intervention pr...
  90. There has been a small reduction in the forecast for Ukraine's 2004 grain crop which ...
  91. The current record high prices seen in the US for feeder cattle are set to stay, as a...
  92. A meeting of UK government ministers last week decided not to act on repeated advice ...
  93. The draft 'framework' agreement on agriculture in the WTO Doha Round negotiations tab...
  94. Chicago nearby maize futures fell this week to their lowest level this year, driven d...
  95. The euro is trading this morning around two cents below a four-month high against the...
  96. Favourable weather this season looks to have boosted Spanish grain production by 10-1...
  97. EU farm ministers offered their first reactions this week to the Commission's recent ...
  98. Serbia-Montenegro will rejoin the ranks of the EU's preferential sugar suppliers next...
  99. Canadian beef exports continue to be stymied by trade bans 14 months after the countr...
  100. The Swiss dairy industry is under enormous economic pressure at present. Producers an...
  101. An announcement by the German seed company $WS Saat AG that it will not take responsi...
  102. Bread grain: The market looked towards the new harvest. The recent price falls, cause...
  103. The next seven days or so will play an important role in determining to what extent i...
  104. The European Commission may face resistance to its plans to recentralise aspects of E...
  105. An in-depth summary of the draft text released to WTO delegations late last week is s...
  106. A scheme to apply compulsory disease prevention measures to farms affected by the she...
  107. The Dutch government has reached agreement with the European Commission over how to d...
  108. The UK parliament's environment, food and rural affairs committee has called for co-e...
  109. A crunch meeting of agricultural negotiators, scheduled for next Wednesday at the Wor...
  110. Reducing the bureaucratic burden of the CAP for farmers, and a heightened focus on an...
  111. German farmers have become slightly less pessimistic about their economic situation i...
  112. The appointment of a new European Commission team has come a step closer with the Eur...
  113. Avian influenza has broken out again in parts of Indonesia and the authorities have l...
  114. Russian imports of beef, pigmeat and poultrymeat totalled 281 600 tonnes in the first...
  115. The Scottish Executive this week announced 42 million [pounds sterling] in extra fund...
  116. The true dimensions of the challenge faced by the EU in elaborating a workable strate...
  117. According to the May 2004 livestock survey, total French cattle numbers declined 2% y...
  118. Detailed plans to abolish the UK budget rebate have emerged this week from the Europe...
  119. Figures released by the European Commission this month indicate that the long-term de...
  120. The European Commission has not ruled out paying a full-rate direct aid to sugar beet...
  121. xport tender adjudication: Export tenders for open market wheat, barley and rye remai...
  122. Spain is to make a legal challenge against this year's reform of the EU cotton regime...
  123. French milk producers and processors are again struggling to reach a deal over the pr...
  124. Four of the EU's new member states won approval from the EU authorities on Tuesday fo...
  125. Avian flu in Asia is far from over, and the US is going to have to hang on hard to it...
  126. The number of cattle on Brazilian feecllots is expected to reach 2.34 million head in...
  127. Demand for Australian beef continues to rise in Japan with 39 743 tonnes shipped in J...
  128. Rich countries must do more to facilitate cotton imports from the developing world, E...
  129. The European Commission this week revised its system for awarding trade concessions t...
  130. The dollar has extended this week's broad retreat as expectations of US rate hikes di...
  131. US pig numbers totalled 60.1 million head as of June 1, 2004, an increase of nearly 1...
  132. The EU-25 is expected to produce 17.74 million tonnes of oilseeds in 2004, an increas...
  133. Farmers in England are to see 10% of their direct aid payments diverted to pay for ru...
  134. Agricultural prices for the week ending July 2, 2004 UK Germany Netherland...
  135. Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus would be able to export agricultural (and other) goo...
  136. The British government's estimate of the probability of British livestock being infec...
  137. Fears that a late, and so far disappointing, Monsoon could sharply reduce Indian oils...
  138. Despite a decline in overall sheep numbers, a higher proportion of ewes and better la...
  139. The use of rural development cash to help top-up phased-in direct farm payments in 20...
  140. For some years, the European Commission's rhetoric on the subject on the 'second pill...
  141. The rapeseed harvest is progressing well across western Europe with big crops expecte...
  142. Western farmers have planted more canola but less durum wheat, oats and barley in 200...
  143. Danish pig producers are critical of their cooperatively owned firm Danish Crown's (D...
  144. EU-25 cereal production is expected to rebound after last summer's drought reduced cr...
  145. The chances of striking a framework deal on reducing agricultural support and protect...
  146. The average price paid for agricultural land in the Republic of Ireland last year was...
  147. French farmers and civil service unions protested in Paris on Thursday (June 10) agai...
  148. World soyabean production in 2004/05 is seen rising by nearly 36 million tonnes to 22...
  149. Producer prices in EU agriculture grew by 1.1% in real terms last year, bouncing back...
  150. Formal permission to open talks on a "tariff-only" banana import regime was requested...
  151. Agricultural prices for the week ending May 28, 2004 UK Germany Netherland...
  152. Bulgaria and Romania this week finalised negotiations for accession to the EU in the ...
  153. The New Zealand sheep industry recorded only modest growth last year, according to th...
  154. The Danish agriculture directorate has released results of its welfare inspections of...
  155. The European Parliament may finally win real power over agricultural policy if EU hea...
  156. Bulgaria completed accession negotiations with the European Union on Tuesday, six mon...
  157. Polish sugar production is projected to amount to 1.90 million tonnes in 2004--a drop...
  158. Export refunds (main list): Rates were changed as follows with effect from June 11: B...
  159. EU poultry production is highly vulnerable to developments in the area of trade liber...
  160. The Canadian Prairies may be facing a hotter, drier summer than normal, Environment C...
  161. The European Union is to review its current requirement that agri-environmental schem...
  162. The EU needs to make further agricultural sector reforms in order to achieve a breakt...
  163. The European Commission has agreed to give farmers in the new member states extra tim...
  164. Russia has now finished sowing this year's grain and legume crop, with the total area...
  165. The Czech government last week adopted a national strategy for agricultural policy wh...
  166. UK supermarket buyers are being warned that will not be able to rely on sufficient do...
  167. A US farming organisation has accused the country's media of picking on the wrong tar...
  168. The Romanian farm ministry said on Thursday it expected a 2004 wheat crop of six mill...
  169. Detailed legal proposals for the reform of the EU sugar regime will be published by t...
  170. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 21 000 tonnes at a maximum re...
  171. Japan, the largest export market for Thai poultry, may resume imports of Thai fresh a...
  172. The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is predicting a fifth consecut...
  173. Polish agriculture is currently experiencing an investment boom. 31 000 farmers have ...
  174. EU heads of government have set a provisional date of January 1 2007 for Bulgarian an...
  175. Top people in the Danish pig industry believe that Danish Crown's (DC) larger affilia...
  176. Hungary is a net exporter of poultrymeat, shipping over 100 000 tonnes a year, accord...
  177. Failure to restrict the use of antibiotics in animals may soon begin to harm US meat ...
  178. Russia has pledged to restart imports of meat and livestock products from the Europea...
  179. The UK agriculture departments launched a consultation on Wednesday over possible act...
  180. Fat cattle: Liveweight except in Germany, Netherlands, France, Ireland. MLC weekly...
  181. A more targeted approach to slaughtering cattle to contain BSE will become standard p...
  182. Fat cattle: Liveweight except in Germany, Netherlands, France, Ireland. MLC weekly...
  183. The US took a significant step towards removing EU sanctions against its agricultural...
  184. A conference on retail prices, convened on June 17 by French finance minister Nichola...
  185. The EU's stuttering progress in trade negotiations and disputes occupies a large chun...
  186. Export tender adjudication: Export tenders for open market wheat, barley and rye rema...
  187. Production of grains and oilseeds in the EU will gradually shift to the new member st...
  188. National rural development plans for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta were agreed...
  189. The farmgate price of pigs in Hungary has risen by more than 15% since EU enlargement...
  190. Expectations regarding the benefits that could be delivered by new regulations on foo...
  191. The latest round of WTO talks on agriculture were heading towards conclusion as Agra ...
  192. In its June issue of the Australian Crop Report released on Tuesday, the Australian B...
  193. A draft 'action plan' to support organic food and farming in the EU strongly emphasis...
  194. The dollar has made further gains against the euro overnight ahead of today's crucial...
  195. Despite earlier predictions of major surges in production of agricultural commodities...
  196. The Irish department of agriculture this week received a report on the country's 130 ...
  197. Liberalisation of global agricultural trade would provide a boost of some $6 billion ...
  198. French grain market analyst Strategie Grains has cautioned that this year's EU wheat ...
  199. A 33% cut in EU sugar prices, a sharp reduction in production quotas and 'decoupled' ...