Agriculture

• Wednesday, December 6th 2023 - 10:47 UTC

  Europol, Spain and Italy combating counterfeiting of virgin olive oil

  

  The traditional olive harvests of Spain and to some extent in some areas of Italy has been far from satisfactory, which means among other consequences that the price of virgin olive oil, so demanding for Mediterranean gastronomy, has soared, and so have attempts to smuggle the produce from northern Africa as well as different methods to commercialize adulterated oil.

• Tuesday, December 5th 2023 - 09:02 UTC

  FAO launches the International Year of Camelids 2024 and their global impact

  

  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) officially launched the International Year of Camelids 2024 on Monday at its Rome headquarters, to recognize and celebrate the vital contributions these animals make to livelihoods, food security, and nutrition.

• Monday, December 4th 2023 - 08:03 UTC

  Equine encephalomyelitis, Argentina declares sanitary emergency; Uruguay reports first case

  

  Argentina has finally declared a sanitary emergency in all of its territory, following an increase in equine encephalomyelitis, EE, and anticipates “immediate, extraordinary, exceptional measures to contain further outbreaks of the virus disease”.

• Thursday, November 30th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

  Uruguay and Paraguay take action to prevent equine encephalomyelitis

  

  Paraguayan and Uruguayan health authorities have been reported to be taking preventive measures regarding a possible outbreak of equine encephalomyelitis.

• Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 14:19 UTC

  US grain exports threatened by insufficient draft along the Mississippi for barges

  

  As has happened with the mighty Paraná River in the heartland of South America, with the Amazon in northern South America, and even with the Panama Canal, all of them suffering lack of rainfall to keep basins flowing with sufficient water levels, now has come the turn of the Mississippi with insufficient draft for the vessels and barges involved in transporting US grains.

• Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 06:28 UTC

  Australia's flock growth has choked the world market for ovine meat

  

  Australia is reporting a record sheep flock, 78 million head, which means the price of mutton has collapsed, as low as 80 US cents per kilo, and many farmers are culling or not mating their ewes to cut costs and implement a workable sustainable food/flock relation ahead of the dry season.

• Tuesday, November 28th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  Outbreak of equine encephalomyelitis in several Argentine provinces

  

  Argentina's Animal Health and Food Quality Service, SENASA, has officially reported positive results of alphavirus, equine encephalomyelitis from regional labs in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Corrientes and Santa Fe, where samples of nervous or dying horses were collected.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 08:31 UTC

  Uruguay, China deepen bilateral ties

  

  President Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay and Xi Jinping of China Wednesday announced after meeting in Beijing that new steps toward a bilateral free trade deal had been agreed upon.

• Saturday, November 18th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Argentine government and consultants anticipate a great 2023/24 agricultural year

  

  Under pressure from the Argentine incumbent presidential candidate for this Sunday's election runoff, and current Economy minister, Sergio Massa, grain markets in the country are forecasting a promising boom for the next agriculture year, with recovered crops and increased revenue to the tune of some US$ 20bn.

• Saturday, November 18th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  Paraguayan corn exports fall sharply

  

  According to a foreign trade report issued by the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) on Friday in Asunción, the South American country suffered a 25.4% drop in corn exports in October compared to the same period last year.