Agriculture

• Wednesday, January 6th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  France to cull 600,000 ducks to contain an avian influenza virus

  

  France is to cull around 600,000 poultry birds as it tries to contain an avian influenza virus that is spreading among duck flocks in the southwest of the country, the farm ministry said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, January 6th 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  China increases Australian wool quota for 2021; NZ's remains unchanged

  

  China increased its import quota for Australian wool from 36,465 tons last year to 38,288 tons for 2021, according to a newly released official statement. The increase came at a time when China and Australia relations are going through a rough patch.

• Monday, January 4th 2021 - 05:15 UTC

  Argentina's grain inspectors' union expect to reach a salary agreement this Monday

  

  Argentina's grain inspectors' union, Urgara, said on the last day of 2020 that its members will continue to strike over the weekend after failing to strike a wage deal despite two meetings with the Chamber of Private and Commercial Ports (CPPC).

• Monday, January 4th 2021 - 05:03 UTC

  China calls on meat processors to tighten sanitary measures before exporting

  

  China’s meat importers and processors have asked exporters in countries with Covid-19 outbreaks to step up disinfection procedures before shipping them to the Asian country.

• Thursday, December 31st 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina suspends corn export sales until March; farmers' surprised and furious

  

  Argentina will suspend sales of corn for export until Feb. 28, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday, announcing the surprise move as part of the government's effort to ensure ample domestic food supplies.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina's soy oil manufacturers and exporters unions' strike could end this week

  

  Argentina's influential chamber of soy oil manufacturers and exporters on Sunday improved an offer to striking workers, seeking to end a more than two-week standoff that has bogged down exports from one of the world's main breadbaskets.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Two weeks of industrial action in Argentina's soy crushers and export ports

  

  Soymeal manufacturers in Argentina presented late on Tuesday a proposal aimed at ending a two-week strike by oil and port workers unions that has thrown a wrench in the flow of agricultural exports from one of the world’s main bread baskets.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Weather and ports' strike in Argentina boosting soy and cereals prices

  

  United States soybeans climbed to six-year highs this week as weather and export troubles in Argentina outweighed concerns of a new coronavirus strain hitting Britain. Corn and wheat futures traded near even as soybeans supported the grains complex.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Peruvian agriculture export companies workers take to highways to renew protests

  

  Workers from agricultural export companies in Peru renewed protests this week after Congress failed to reach an agreement to reform the sector and address their complaints about poor pay.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Kashmir's saffron “red gold” harvest depleted by climate change

  

  On sweeping fields once blanketed in lush purple, a thin and bedraggled crop of flowers was all farmers in Indian-administered Kashmir’s saffron-growing region Pampore had to show for this year’s harvest.