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Agriculture

  • Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

    New Zealand' dairy industry struggling with an outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis

    More than 80 farms have tested positive for the disease. Minister O'Connor has pushed hard for officials to try and find out how Mycoplasma bovis got into NZ

    While experts struggle to pinpoint the original source of the Mycoplasma bovis outbreak, New Zealand Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor says resources may be better spent on bio security systems that prevent similar outbreaks. Last May the New Zeland government announced it would try to eradicate the disease, which can cause mastitis and abortions in cows, ordering a phased culling program that's expected to cost close to US$ 700 million.

  • Monday, February 4th 2019 - 08:05 UTC

    Macri on an ambitious trade and cooperation visit to India

    Macri's state visit will extend from February 17 to 19, in the framework of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations (Photo file G20)

    Argentine president Mauricio Macri will be visiting India from February 17 to 19 as part of an ambitious bilateral agenda to expand trade and cooperation in a range of sectors including renewable energy, nuclear energy, space and agriculture, aviation, mining (lithium, gold and copper), pharmaceuticals and automobiles.

  • Wednesday, January 30th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

    US farm lobbies want a post-Brexit UK food quality standard lowered

    The meat lobby wants the sale of growth hormone-fed beef, currently banned in the UK and EU, to be allowed in the UK

    United States lobby groups for agriculture and pharmaceutical firms want UK standards changed to be closer to those of the US in a post-Brexit trade deal. The meat lobby wants the sale of growth hormone-fed beef, currently banned in the UK and EU, to be allowed in the UK.

  • Tuesday, January 29th 2019 - 10:19 UTC

    EU quotas for farming produce post Brexit trigger controversy

    EU has a series of “tariff rate quotas”, allowing in agricultural producers such as the US, Oceania, Latin American to export produce free of tariffs.

    The European Union on Monday adopted quotas for farming produce it will accept from third countries after Britain leaves the bloc and acknowledged this could happen before it has concluded talks with them on the subject.

  • Tuesday, January 29th 2019 - 09:31 UTC

    African swine fever scare in Europe; Denmark builds a 70km fence in the border with Germany

    There are fears that African swine fever, which has been found in two dead wild boar in Belgium, could threaten Denmark's huge pig industry

    Denmark has started building a 70km fence along its border with Germany in an effort to control the migration of wild boar. There are fears that African swine fever, which has been found in two dead wild boars in Belgium, could threaten Denmark's huge pig industry. If the disease spreads, it could jeopardize almost US$ 1.7bn in pork-product exports from Denmark.

  • Monday, January 28th 2019 - 08:32 UTC

    Brazil's corn and soybeans January exports booming

    According to government data, by the third week of January Brazil's corn exports had totaled 2.80 million tons

    Brazil is poised to export more corn than soybeans for the first time in a year this January, although sales of the oilseed remain high for the period, according to government and shipping data.

  • Thursday, January 24th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

    Saudi Arabia limits imports from a number of Brazilian chicken processing plants

    Some 58 Brazilian plants are currently authorized to export to Saudi Arabia, ABPA said, but only 30 of those are effectively shipping products to the kingdom.

    Saudi Arabia has barred five Brazilian chicken processing plants from exporting to the Middle Eastern country, leaving 25 with valid export permits, Brazil’s meat trade association ABPA said, citing “technical” reasons. The Saudi move threw up a fresh hurdle for top exporter BRF SA and its rivals just a day after an anti-dumping dispute with China was resolved.

  • Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 10:09 UTC

    Brazilian 2019 coffee production forecasted to decline 11.5/18%

    Arabica production is estimated between 36.12 and 38.16 million bags, presenting a comparative reduction to the last harvest from 23.9 to 19.6%.

    Brazilian food supply and statistics agency Conab has reported that Brazil’s coffee production is expected to decline in 2019 to between 50.48 and 54.48 million bags. Conab attributes the 11.5 to 18% drop from the 61.65 million bags the agency reported for the year prior to Brazil’s coffee plants recovering from an increased output in 2018, which is affecting Arabica in particular.

  • Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 10:06 UTC

    Beware EU consumers: scheme to sell horse meat lasagna

    Investigators say Spanghero bought horse meat then mislabeled it as beef used in prepared foods.

    Four people are going on trial in Paris over an alleged scheme that fed consumers across Europe frozen foods containing cheap horse meat fraudulently labelled as pricier beef.

  • Saturday, January 19th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

    Brazil plans a self-monitoring system for food processors, despite a non-encouraging record

    Tereza Cristina Dias said that Brazil's new business-friendly government plans to send draft legislation on self-monitoring to Congress in the first half of this year

    Brazil is moving toward a self-monitoring system for food processors, Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias said on Friday, including meatpackers still recovering from an inspection scandal that hurt trade with key markets. Dias said in an interview that Brazil's new business-friendly government plans to send draft legislation on self-monitoring to Congress in the first half of this year.