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File photo of a canola field in northern France’s Normandy region. (Brasil2/iStock/Getty Images)

France backs non-GMO regulation for crop gene-editing in EU

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 18, 2021

Paris | Reuters — France sees crops developed using gene-editing techniques as different to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and opposes a European Union court decision to put them under strict GMO regulations, the country’s agriculture minister said. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in 2018 that mutagenesis, among so-called new breeding techniques (NBT) based

File photo of domestic hogs on a German farm. (FooTToo/iStock/Getty Images)

Livestock, Weather

EU farmers could get cash to curb emissions from belching livestock

By GFM Network News, Kate Abnett January 15, 2021

Brussels | Reuters — Farmers should get European Union funding to reduce methane emissions from livestock or increase organic farmland, the European Commission said on Thursday, under plans to make agriculture greener. The EU is nearing the end of a two-year battle to overhaul its massive farming subsidies scheme, to attempt to align the agriculture

Markets, News

Little scope for EU to take wheat export business from Russia

By Reuters January 5, 2021

Tight wheat supplies in the European Union will limit its scope to win more export business this season after Russia’s decision to impose a wheat export tax, consultancy Strategie Grains said on Dec. 17. Moscow will apply a 25-euros- (US$30.57-) per-tonne tax on wheat exports from Feb. 15 until the end of the marketing season

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Markets, News

Britain’s wheat imports slow during October

By Reuters December 22, 2020

Britain’s wheat imports slowed during October but are still running at more than double last season’s pace, customs data showed Dec. 11. Wheat imports for the month totalled 174,914 tonnes, down from 337,212 tonnes in September. Germany was the largest supplier in October, shipping 71,277 tonnes, followed by Denmark with 65,862 tonnes. Cumulative imports since

News, Other

Lack of detail, slow ratification of U.K. trade deal raises concern

There’s a chance that Canada-U.K. trade could be hit with tariffs, critics say

By D.C. Fraser December 14, 2020

Despite boasting of signing a transitional agreement, Canada may not have a trade deal ready with the United Kingdom by the time 2021 rolls around. Exporters could be forced to pay British tariffs if the deal isn’t ratified into law by the end of the year. Canada’s International Trade Minister Mary Ng has failed to

Markets

Britain, Canada agree on post-Brexit rollover trade deal

Tailor-made comprehensive pact expected to follow

By GFM Network News November 22, 2020

London/Toronto | Reuters — Britain and Canada struck a rollover trade deal on Saturday to protect the flow of almost $35 billion-worth of goods and services between them after Brexit, and vowed to start talks on a bespoke agreement next year. As Britain prepares to end its transition out of the European Union on Dec.

Markets, News

EU maize harvest shows mixed yields work

By Reuters November 4, 2020

Maize harvesting is in full swing in Europe and the effects of summer drought are being seen in contrasting yields, which could push down production this year despite a sharp increase in plantings, analysts said. Forecasters have made steep cuts to their estimates of the European Union-wide maize harvest due to drought, and consultancy Strategie

A post-Brexit deal in Britain with the European Union is being prioritized before any deal is likely to be reached with Canada.

News, Other

Grim prospects of U.K.-Canada trade deal by end of year

The U.K. is preoccupied with ensuring there’s not a hard Brexit from the EU

By D.C. Fraser November 4, 2020

As prospects of a trade deal between the United Kingdom and the European Union collapse, there is growing doubt in a post-Brexit pact involving Canada being completed by the end of the year. The U.K. left the EU on Jan. 31 and is nearing the end of an 11-month implementation period where essentially agreements remain status quo while the U.K. negotiates a more permanent

Other

Britain to protect pork pies, whisky with new scheme after EU exit

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 23, 2020

London | Reuters — New rules to guarantee the authenticity and origin of traditional British foods, such as Stilton cheese and Melton Mowbray pork pies, after the end of the UK’s Brexit transition period, were set out by the government on Thursday. Britain left the European Union at the end of January and an 11-month

Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: Time for an Agpec trade agreement?

By Gord Gilmour October 22, 2020

It would seem times are about to get tough for ‘trading nations’ as Canada has styled itself for the past few decades. That designation makes sense, and in many ways is inevitable. After all, we’re talking about a land mass of nearly 10-million square kilometres, the second-largest country in the world. And on that enormous

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives European Union

France backs non-GMO regulation for crop gene-editing in EU

EU farmers could get cash to curb emissions from belching livestock

Little scope for EU to take wheat export business from Russia

Britain’s wheat imports slow during October

Lack of detail, slow ratification of U.K. trade deal raises concern

Britain, Canada agree on post-Brexit rollover trade deal

EU maize harvest shows mixed yields work

Grim prospects of U.K.-Canada trade deal by end of year

Britain to protect pork pies, whisky with new scheme after EU exit

Editor’s Take: Time for an Agpec trade agreement?

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