Insights and Stories on France

Global wheat production to decrease, USDA says

Sep. 13, 2019 at 6:11 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — In the latest supply and demand report from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the global wheat forecast was revised downward due to difficult weather conditions. USDA has now projected 765.53 million tonnes of wheat to be produced in 2019-20, according to the department’s world agriculture supply and demand […]

Shut out of China, Canada finds canola buyers in drought-damaged Europe

Aug. 22, 2019 at 2:48 pm CDT

By Gus Trompiz Rod Nickel

France’s Hulot calls on parliament to vote against EU-Canada trade deal

Jul. 22, 2019 at 11:59 am CDT

By Geert De Clercq Marine Pennetier

EU says ready to launch U.S. trade talks, but without agriculture

Apr. 15, 2019 at 6:46 pm CDT

By philip-blenkinsop

French rapeseed farmers destroy 18,000 hectares over GMO risk

Apr. 5, 2019 at 6:33 pm CDT

By Reuters

France’s glyphosate exit seen 80 per cent complete by 2021

Jan. 25, 2019 at 3:39 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — France expects to have cut the use of glyphosate herbicide by 80 per cent by early 2021, its agriculture minister said on Friday, less than previously anticipated due to the number of farmers who will qualify for an exemption. In November 2017, President Emmanuel Macron pledged […]

By Reuters

France delays food price rise for farmers after protests

Dec. 5, 2018 at 8:15 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — France, reeling from violent protests over the cost of living, said Wednesday it will delay a planned rise in minimum food prices, incurring the wrath of the main farmers group which urged street action next week. A powerful constituency in French politics, farmers have long complained […]

By Jean-Baptiste Vey Sybille De La Hamaide

Fearful of swine fever, France to put up fence on Belgian border

Oct. 12, 2018 at 6:09 pm CDT

Strasbourg, France | Reuters — France will put up fencing along its border with Belgium to prevent wild boars spreading African swine fever, a virulent livestock disease that could disrupt Europe’s pig industry. France has been on alert for African swine fever since Belgium detected the virus last month among […]

By Reuters

France to the rescue as drought hits EU barley crop

Jul. 19, 2018 at 5:42 pm CDT

Hamburg | Reuters — Drought has seriously damaged barley harvests in northern Europe, potentially tightening supplies of animal feed and malt for beer brewing, but a decent crop in France could save the day, experts said on Thursday. “There are painful crop losses in Germany, Poland, Britain and Scandinavia,” one […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans down on trade war worry

Jul. 2, 2018 at 5:20 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures closed at their lowest level in more than two years on Monday while corn fell to fresh contract lows on strong U.S. crop prospects and worries about trade fights with China and other main export partners. Wheat also retreated as rising supplies from […]

By Karl Plume