Agriculture

• Wednesday, May 15th 2019 - 20:00 UTC

  African swine fever extends to fourth South African province

  

  An outbreak of African swine fever, a severe hemorrhagic disease of pigs, has spread to a fourth province in South Africa, the agricultural ministry said on Monday, following a spate of outbreaks last month.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  China announces higher tariffs on US produce; Trump expects to meet Xi in June in G20 summit

  

  United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would meet Chinese president Xi Jinping next month as the trade war between the world's two largest economies intensified, sending shivers through global markets.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Bayer-Monsanto loses US$ 2bn glyphosate law suit in California

  

  A jury in California on Monday ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay more than US$2 billion damages to a couple who sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Falkland Islands Wool Company attended the 88th Congress of the International Wool Textiles Organisation

  

  Vikki Berntsen and Farrah Peck of The Falkland Islands Wool Company attended the 88th Congress of the International Wool Textiles Organisation (IWTO) last month, along with Adam Dawes of the Department of Agriculture, and Robert Hall of Falkland Wool Growers.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil's chicken exporter confident about future operations in Europe, Arab countries and China

  

  Brazil's BRF SA, the world’s largest chicken exporter, believes Europe could lift an embargo affecting a dozen of its plants sooner than anticipated because of the global meat supply imbalance deriving from a deadly hog disease in China.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Brazil confident of a Mercosur/EU trade accord in coming weeks

  

  The European Union and Mercosur will likely close a trade agreement in the near future, Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretary Lucas Ferraz said in an interview with Bloomberg. “We’ve never been so close,” Ferraz said adding, “we’ve advanced more in four months than in 20 years”.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Human activities have put a million species at risk of extinction, says UN global biodiversity report

  

  Human activities have put as many as one million other species at risk of extinction, according to the first comprehensive United Nations report on global biodiversity. The report, a summary of which was released on Monday, emphasizes humanity’s devastating impact on the natural world, which is accelerating extinctions at an unprecedented rate in human history.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Agricultural machine makers anxiously waiting for Brazil's new farm credit package

  

  Uncertainty surrounding Brazil’s new farm credit package is worrying executives from the world’s largest agricultural machine makers since a delay on the definition of the program could hurt their sales.

• Wednesday, May 1st 2019 - 02:40 UTC

  Argentine pork to China, which is suffering from an African swine fever epidemic

  

  Argentina announced on Tuesday it had struck a deal with Chinese authorities that would allow it to begin exporting pork to the Asian giant from 25 of the country’s meat-packing plants.

• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Brazilian ministry asks for an end to the list of endangered aquatic species

  

  Brazil's agriculture minister has asked the minister of the environment to suspend the country's list of threatened and endangered aquatic species. “It's hurting fishermen”, Jorge Seif Júnior argued and will have a significant negative impact on the fishing economy.