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PMRA reviews insecticide link to bee deaths

By Reuters March 22, 2013

A class of insecticides that could be banned in the European Union because of their risk to honeybees is also under review in Canada. The neonicotinoid class includes imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam products which are the basis for several popular insecticides and seed treatments in Canada. Imidacloprid products include Bayer’s Admire and Gaucho, and thiamethoxam

Crops, Grain Markets, News, Opinion

Analysis: Are we near peak biofuels?

By Gerard Wynn March 16, 2013

It is now clear, depending on where the boundary is set in life-cycle estimates of carbon emissions,  that some biofuels offer limited or no benefits compared with conventional gasoline

London / Reuters / A stalled biofuel industry will need to produce far more efficient fuels to avoid setting off another bout of arguments over its contribution to boosting energy security and cutting carbon emissions. Biofuels had a difficult 2012. In the United States, Energy Information Administration data show production through November fell compared with

Livestock, News

EU threatens legal action to enforce sow welfare rules

February 28, 2013

Reuters / Nine European Union countries, including France and Germany, face potential legal action for failing to implement new rules on pig welfare, the European Commission said Feb. 21. A quarter of the bloc’s 12 million sows are still being kept on farms where individual cages, known as sow stalls, remain in use, even though

Crops, News

Europe removes agriculture barriers to U.S. trade talks

By Robin Emmott February 15, 2013

Reuters / The European Union dropped its ban on some U.S. meat imports Feb. 4 in a gesture aimed at starting talks on a free trade pact that would encompass about half the world’s economic output. Brussels and Washington want to deepen a relationship that accounts for a third of global trade, and ending the

Crops

EU Commission wants curbs on pesticides to protect bees

By Claire Davenport February 12, 2013

Reuters / The European Commission said Jan. 31 it wanted EU member states to restrict the use of pesticides linked to the decline of bees. The commission said it was asking EU countries to suspend the use of neonicotinoid insecticides — among the most commonly used crop pesticides — on sunflower, rapeseed, maize and cotton.

News

EU farm subsidy reforms cut payments to the wealthiest farms

By Charlie Dunmore February 12, 2013

Europe’s wealthiest landowners, including Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Spain’s Duchess of Alba, will see deep cuts to their future farm subsidies under proposals from members of the European Parliament Jan. 23. Annual payments to the top recipients of agricultural subsidies should be capped at 300,000 euros from 2014, the European Parliament’s influential agriculture committee said.

Cereals, Crops, News

EU may extend zero import duties

November 9, 2012

Reuters / The European Union’s cereals management committee will vote Nov. 8 on whether to extend the suspension of the bloc’s import duties on feed wheat and barley until the end of June 2013, a draft regulation showed. In June, the European Union suspended its import duties of 12 euros per tonne for low- and

Hogs, Livestock, News

Exodus feared with new EU pig welfare rules in force Jan. 1

By Sybille De La Hamaide November 9, 2012

Reuters / Europe’s pregnant pigs will be happier next year but pork eaters will pay more and some breeders will go out of business as new porcine welfare rules compound the spiralling cost of the cereals for animal feed. Sow stalls, the metal cages used to hem in pregnant pigs and make them easier to

News

Analysis: European biofuel push proving hard to reverse

By Gerard Wynn November 9, 2012

European policy-makers are discovering the difficulty of curbing a biofuel industry they weaned five years ago as a low-carbon alternative to crude oil, but which is increasingly at odds with the environment and food production. To halt or reverse a $22-billion European biofuel industry requires a sound justification. The problem with biofuels is that calculation

Cereals, Crops, News

Austria wants review of Europe’s policy on GM corn

October 26, 2012

vienna / reuters / Austria’s minister for agriculture and the environment is calling on the European Commission to review its approval process for genetically modified food after a controversial French study linked GM corn to higher health risks in rats. The study — repudiated by many scientists — found rats fed on Monsanto’s GM corn

Daily Network News

USDA defends $12 billion subsidy amid farm economy challenges

Canada December retail sales down 0.4 per cent; seen up 1.5 per cent in January

Feed Grains Weekly: Domestic prices remain flat

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