Stories Collection

  1. The dollar is weak across the board, particularly versus the euro, as concerns about ...
  2. Mariann Fischer Boel's future as EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Developmen...
  3. The Canada Beef Export Federation (CBEF) said last week that exports would increase i...
  4. Last week's news that Asian rust disease had arrived in the US seems to have hardened...
  5. EU cattle production is expected to decline by 0.3% in 2004 and a further reduction o...
  6. The German government appears set to push controversial rules on the coexistence of g...
  7. Fat cattle: Liveweight except in Germany, Netherlands, France, Ireland. MLC weekly...
  8. EU pig production will be characterised by several important factors in the coming ye...
  9. EU farm expenditure was given a lukewarm thumbs-up this week by the European Court of...
  10. The Agenda 2000 reforms led to a reduction of 18% in the level of the EU's Amber Box ...
  11. The European Commission was pushed on the defensive this week following news that a W...
  12. Pause in dollar slide The euro having breached 1 [euro] = $1.30 in the past two da...
  13. Hungarian agriculture is still characterised largely by small farms despite being one...
  14. Big maize crops in the US and China should help lift world coarse grain supplies to a...
  15. The rise of ethanol as a key market worldwide will "add a new dimension" to the chall...
  16. Chinese wheat imports are expected to drop in 2004/05 despite a new Australian deal, ...
  17. Lamb and sheep slaughterings in the old EU-15 are expected to be lower this year due ...
  18. Danish agricultural exports to the ten new EU member states increased by 57% in May a...
  19. Dutch arable farmers have reached an agreement over the cultivation of genetically mo...
  20. World rice prices are expected to climb further next year due to an expected drop in ...
  21. The Dutch government's plans for rural restructuring will have positive effects for a...
  22. Dramatic increases in meat and milk prices and record harvests of major crops have co...
  23. German 2004/05 winter rapeseed plantings for harvesting in summer 2005 are expected t...
  24. The EU should consider funding rural development entirely from its own central budget...
  25. EU finance ministers meeting this week in Brussels stuck to their guns over a 1bn [eu...
  26. Rising world supplies continue to question US maize export targets, chipping away at ...
  27. Brazilian soya crushers have warned that the problems seen earlier this year when Chi...
  28. In a highly nervous market the euro dropped half a cent in minutes this morning back ...
  29. Export refunds (main list): For skimmed milk powder and associated products, the gap ...
  30. The Union of Independent African Banana Producers (UPIBA) has welcomed the proposed E...
  31. US farmers have been holding doggedly on to as much new crop maize and soyabeans as p...
  32. The continuing weakness of the dollar against the euro has serious implications for t...
  33. Agriculture still provides more support for local economies in many of the EU's small...
  34. Brussels will finally emerge from legislative limbo next Monday, when the new Europea...
  35. Radical decisions involving the creation of a world class marketing body for dairy an...
  36. Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle prices fell their largest amount in four mon...
  37. Thailand's target for exporting 300 000 tonnes of cooked poultrymeat next year, mainl...
  38. Fresh trade sanctions are in the offing against the US, after the EU on Wednesday for...
  39. Australia is expected to harvest 20.78 million tonnes of wheat in 2004/05, down 3.5 m...
  40. The UK would like to see more of the EU's rural cash spent on environmental prioritie...
  41. Sterling slumps The dollar has hovered close to a two-month low on the euro and a ...
  42. Protecting direct agricultural payments and market measures will be the first concern...
  43. The German trade deficit for food and agricultural products went down significantly i...
  44. Governments of new EU member states were given a stark warning not to use CAP funds i...
  45. Russia and Ukraine might be able to export a combined 2 million tonnes of wheat annua...
  46. EU member state experts have ratified the European Commission's decision to ban expor...
  47. Mariann Fischer Boel moved a step closer on Wednesday to becoming the EU's next Commi...
  48. The Spanish government would like in principle to keep CAP subsidies linked as strong...
  49. Agricultural prices for the week ending September 24, 2004 UK Germany Nethe...
  50. Total UK cereal production in 2004 rose 3.9% year-on-year to 22.3 million tonnes, acc...
  51. US beef exports to Japan moved a step closer today when Japan said it planned to excl...
  52. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices ([euro]/100kg) Cattle ...
  53. The French government is to increase the funding available under the voluntary outgoe...
  54. The dollar hovered this morning near recent several-month lows against major currenci...
  55. Production in the Dutch meat and livestock sector declined by 8% to around 2.6 millio...
  56. The Everything But Arms (EBA) agreement, boosting access to EU markets for the world'...
  57. Reform of the EU's agricultural trade regime would "substantially contribute to the p...
  58. The EU is set to suspend sanctions imposed on the US in a long-running row over tax b...
  59. Thailand is planning a campaign to change its poultry farming methods in order to sto...
  60. Members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee expressed their misgivings...
  61. The EU has decided against significant further concessions, whether in agriculture or...
  62. Romania and Bulgaria are both on track to accede to the EU in January 2007, according...
  63. The dollar has eased across the board in Europe on the back of rising oil prices and ...
  64. Export refunds (main list): All rates are unchanged. Non-annex 1 refunds: Unchange...
  65. World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on agriculture will hinge on the degree to which...
  66. US farmers looked determined this week to confound recent trade warnings that maize a...
  67. Given its significance for the longer term, it is not surprising that expectations fo...
  68. The fate of the incoming European Commission--including the EU's next farm chief--han...
  69. The UK's National Beef Association (NBA) says it is working to make sure that the new...
  70. Brussels was thrown into turmoil this week with the shock announcement by European Co...
  71. As EU farm ministers prepare to discuss aspects of proposed new animal transport legi...
  72. Market situation: The market situation continues to be stable. Supplies were said to ...
  73. With 2004 failing to deliver sufficient rains to break Australia's long drought, the ...
  74. Germany is expected to harvest 12.6 million tonnes of potatoes this year, up 27.2% ov...
  75. Fat cattle: Liveweight except in Germany, Netherlands, France, Ireland. MLC weekly...
  76. Members of the EU's Standing Committee on the Food Chain this week recommended an ext...
  77. A bureaucratic mix-up between the London-based UK agriculture department (Defra) and ...
  78. The European Union is facing liability for hundreds of million of euros in compensati...
  79. The woman who is on course to be the EU's next farm chief will fight to win every eur...
  80. French shell eggs exports totalled 238.1 million during the first five months of this...
  81. The EU's farm Commissioner-designate, Mariann Fischer Boel, sought this week to sooth...
  82. With global oil prices soaring, EU economic affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia this...
  83. Whether or not the European Union's recent reforms of its agriculture policy will be ...
  84. The dollar hit a six-month low against the yen of $1 = [yen] 105.82 this morning, aft...
  85. Prospects for European and world trade in dairy products look good--at least accordin...
  86. South Korea imported 84 000 tonnes of fresh and frozen pigmeat during the first six m...
  87. Ecuador, the world's largest producer of bananas, took its case for the lowest possib...
  88. While EU politicians claim that the June 2003 reforms of the common agricultural poli...
  89. The Mexican government has said that it will maintain quota tariffs on imports of US'...
  90. The US Congress has adopted a bill to repeal the export tax breaks provided by the Ex...
  91. Brazilian soyabean production is expected to reach 63.2 million tonnes in 2004/05, so...
  92. EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has offered his support to the German gove...
  93. The German agriculture ministry has denied that there is any evidence that meat and b...
  94. The number of UK dairy farmers planning on leaving the industry has almost halved ove...
  95. The European Parliament has voted for a 2005 farm budget of 50.722 billion [euro] (in...
  96. Provisional results of the June 2004 agricultural census for Wales show a slight fall...
  97. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices ([euro]/100kg) Cattle ...
  98. Some 5 million [euro] in EU funds have been cleared by the European Commission for us...
  99. Sharply higher US crop estimates from the US Department of Agriculture sent shock wav...
  100. French poultrymeat exports totalled 235 733 tonnes in the first five months of this y...
  101. Chinese soyabean imports in 2004/05 are unlikely to reach 2003's record 20 million to...
  102. Despite world and European meat consumption being stable this year, following on from...
  103. Denmark and Italy will spearhead a push to establish common EU rules for the 'co-exis...
  104. Payments based on "public goods and services" must shoulder aside traditional product...
  105. Talks on a free trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur bloc of South America...
  106. The Uruguayan cattle herd is expected to increase moderately over the next two years,...
  107. The European Commission on Wednesday floated a tariff of 230 [euro]/tonne for the new...
  108. The EU's impending offer of country-specific wheat import quotas for Russia and Ukrai...
  109. Argentine beef exports totalled 340 100 tonnes during the first nine months of this y...
  110. Agricultural prices for the week ending October 22, 2004 UK Germany N'lands ...
  111. For the second time this year, expensive freight is threatening to raise the 'landed'...
  112. New proposals to stem the flood of sugar from the troubled Western Balkans region int...
  113. EU member states are moving steadily towards consensus on new rules for rural funding...
  114. The US stands ready to raise import duties on a wide range of farm produce if dispute...
  115. Just one BSE infected sheep entering the food chain would be "something to worry abou...
  116. Following the publication of the Welsh June agriculture census results this week, the...
  117. UK wheat exports to Egypt came a step closer this week following a meeting between UK...
  118. Negotiations on agriculture in the WTO Doba Round will, for the remainder of this yea...
  119. Canada has begun a week-long push in Asia to persuade new buyers outside North Americ...
  120. Turkish membership of the EU would bring economic and political benefits for both sid...
  121. The Irish agriculture department this week issued statements of provisional entitleme...
  122. The yen, dollar and sterling have all fallen versus the euro, adding to the gloom for...
  123. Australia remained the world's top beef exporter this year, despite a significant cha...
  124. World wheat and maize production estimates for 2004/05 have risen again this month, a...
  125. Austria should harvest 3.2 million tonnes of grain (excluding maize) this year, up ar...
  126. Feed ingredient prices at 23 September, 2004 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless st...
  127. This year's EU enlargement will play a key role in ensuring that European markets for...
  128. The new, united voice of the dairy industry, Dairy UK, was formally launched on Thurs...
  129. Draft Commission Regulation setting out derogation from Regulation 800/1999 regarding...
  130. The UK breeding herd totalled 502 000 head in June 2004, down 2.7% on last year, alth...
  131. Meat consumption in Germany has risen considerably in the last year and as a result G...
  132. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) has trimmed its ...
  133. Spanish agriculture minister Elena Espinosa has opened a new milk quota purchasing sc...
  134. Feed ingredient prices at 9 September, 2004 (shipment dates cif Rotterdam unless sta...
  135. This year's EU malting barley crop is generally good but late harvest delays are a wo...
  136. The observation has been made in the past that the European Union is seen in its wors...
  137. French milk producers and dairies have reached a deal on prices for the coming years ...
  138. US milk production for the 2004/05 (October-September) marketing year is forecast at ...
  139. US weather jitters shook grain and oilseed markets this week. Fears that US and Canad...
  140. It is currently being argued in the wake of last week's confirmation of the WTO panel...
  141. Canada hopes to sell 1.8 million tonnes of wheat to China this marketing year, simila...
  142. Russian dairy producers have been authorised to export milk products to the EU for th...
  143. Management Committee News Agricultural prices for the week ending September 17, 2004...
  144. The UK's first purpose-built plant to produce diesel fuel from rapeseed is expected t...
  145. Export tender awards: Bids were accepted for a total of 191 000 tonnes at a maximum r...
  146. Persistent wet weather has spoiled Finland's hopes for a good grain harvest this year...
  147. Meat and Wool New Zealand (MWNZ) has drawn up a list of ambitious targets that could ...
  148. EU agriculture ministers will gather next Monday and Tuesday in the Netherlands for a...
  149. The dollar has given up most of Wednesday's gains against the euro as the market trie...
  150. Australia could lose its edge on world markets if it does not take the plunge into ge...
  151. Market situation: The world market situation is reported to be stable, while the EU m...
  152. An alliance of New Zealand pesticide action groups has urged the government to do mor...
  153. Governments should encourage technical innovation in the area of biofuels and other r...
  154. High food safety standards were maintained on the UK market during 2003, according to...
  155. The closure of many smaller abattoirs in Scotland has meant longer transport distance...
  156. Less than 20% of the 3.1 billion [euro] paid out as "irregular" CAP aid payments over...
  157. The simmering rows over money flowing into and out of the EU budget are likely to com...
  158. Preliminary results of the June 2004 agricultural census in Northern Ireland show a d...
  159. The WTO has given the EU and seven other countries the all-clear to hit the US with u...
  160. Current estimates of sugar beet production in the EU-25 point to a further, but small...
  161. Russian poultrymeat production is expected to rise by 16.6% to 1.4 million tonnes in ...
  162. The US 2004 maize crop is expected to reach a record 11.041 billion bushels (280.47 m...
  163. The World Trade Organisation this week confirmed its preliminary ruling that the EU's...
  164. Market situation: Egg prices are generally low in the majority of member states. The ...
  165. EU fruit and vegetable trade group Freshfel this week launched a drive for EU higher ...
  166. The Danish farmers' organisation, Dansk Landbrug, expects domestic slaughter pig prod...
  167. The main food safety challenges facing the European Commission in the years ahead are...
  168. Brazil should end 2004 with one-third of the world's poultry market, estimated at aro...
  169. The growing Spanish pig sector is becoming increasingly concentrated and vertically i...
  170. Subsidy to the EU fruit and vegetable sector has moved sharply away from market inter...
  171. Agricultural prices for the week ending September 3, 2004 UK Germany Ne...
  172. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices ([euro]/100kg) Cattle Pi...
  173. The EU will end its ban on imports of poultry from Canada at the end of this month, i...
  174. The government should provide more training for farmers in England and make support s...
  175. FRESH Export refunds under the A3 system: Rates were agreed (favourable opinion) a...
  176. Portugal will soon be free to export beef within the EU for the first time since Nove...
  177. Frosts and lack of rain will reduce the ongoing forecast in 2004 for Australian barle...
  178. India has forecast a lower output of winter grains and oilseeds due to erratic monsoo...
  179. The EU is scheduled to swap adjusted offers for a bilateral trade deal with the Merco...
  180. The EU's new member states will almost certainly have the right to bring forward dire...
  181. EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has attacked the viability of Turkey's bid...
  182. Spain last year recovered its habitual position as second-biggest recipient of CAP ai...
  183. It is not yet possible to draw definite conclusions about farm income for 2004, but t...
  184. The European Commission has cleared the inscription of 17 varieties of genetically mo...
  185. Cereals led a 1.6% year-on-year increase in farm product prices in the EU-15 in Janua...
  186. Provisional June 2004 census results released this week by the English and Scottish a...
  187. UK lamb exports were up 4% year-on-year during the first six months of 2004 at 32 600...
  188. The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has lowered its export projections because of uncertai...
  189. The dollar has steadied against the euro at the upper end of recent ranges following ...
  190. The French ministry of agriculture has opened an outgoers' scheme for pig producers, ...
  191. Turkey and the EU would face huge challenges in harmonising their farm sectors if the...
  192. European Union farmers need to consider ways of protecting themselves against the inc...
  193. The French fruit and vegetable sector has signed an interprofessional agreement allow...
  194. An association of local authorities hostile to the cultivation of genetically modifie...
  195. A surprisingly conservative assessment of Brazilian 2005 soyabean production prospect...
  196. The EU and Russia have buried their differences over veterinary export certificates, ...
  197. Cattle, pigmeat and sheepmeat representative prices ([euro]/100kg) Cattle ...
  198. Average monthly prices for selected commodities in [euro] and other national currenc...
  199. Australian live sheep exports are forecast to decline by 22% to just 3.7 million head...