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Strategie Grains cuts EU wheat crop forecast as harvesting starts

Jun. 13, 2024 at 9:57 am CDT

Paris | Reuters – Strategie Grains lowered its monthly forecast for this year’s soft wheat crop in the European Union, confirming its expectation for a four-year low in production as harvesting gets under way. The consultancy now sees 2024/25 soft wheat production in the 27-country bloc at 121.8 million metric […]

EU to secure 40 million avian flu vaccines for 15 countries: officials

Jun. 10, 2024 at 10:34 am CDT

By Julia Payne

EU sets prohibitive tariffs on Russian, Belarusian grain from July

May. 30, 2024 at 9:46 am CDT

By Reuters

Polish farmers begin hunger strike over EU Green Deal

May. 13, 2024 at 11:09 am CDT

By Reuters

Europe’s restless farmers are forcing policymakers to act

Apr. 3, 2024 at 10:27 am CDT

By Kate Abnett Reuters

Polish farmers take grain protests to Lithuanian border

Mar. 1, 2024 at 8:51 am CST

Polish farmers protested on the border with Lithuania on Friday against what they say are imports of Ukrainian grain through the Baltic country, something the Lithuanian officials deny.

By Reuters

Poland mulls wider ban on Ukrainian food imports as farmers warn of more protests

Feb. 27, 2024 at 4:23 pm CST

Warsaw | Reuters -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday he could not rule out widening a national ban on imports of Ukrainian grains to other products if the European Union does not act to protect the bloc's markets.

By Karol Badohal Reuters

Farmers protest across Europe, press ministers to act

Feb. 26, 2024 at 10:00 am CST

Farmers on Monday blocked a border crossing between Poland and Germany, threw bottles at police in Brussels and gathered in Madrid to demand action on cheap supermarket prices and what they say is unfair competition from abroad.

By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk David Latona philip-blenkinsop Poland Reuters Ukraine

Tractors drive down a highway near Paris, France.

EU recommends ambitious 2040 climate target, goes light on farming

Feb. 6, 2024 at 5:32 pm CST

The European Commission recommended on Tuesday that the EU slash net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040, an ambitious target that will test political appetite for the region's fight against climate change ahead of EU elections.

By Kate Abnett Reuters

Italy’s farmers head to Rome in tractor convoy protest

Feb. 5, 2024 at 10:52 am CST

Italian farmers protesting about red tape and cheap imports from outside the EU headed towards Rome in convoys of tractors on Monday, while their colleagues in the north led a cow through the streets of Milan.

By Reuters