Desperate British pig farmers tell Johnson: Ease immigration rules
Two sisters running a pig farm in northeast England have a message for Prime Minister Boris Johnson: lift strict immigration rules for butchers or risk seeing the pork sector collapse under the weight of overly fattened animals.
U.S. farm exports are in record-setting territory
It’s an open question if U.S. ag exports were as large as forecast in fiscal 2021, but a running tally by the USDA says they were the largest ever. Shipments to foreign buyers totaled $160.2 billion with one month to go in the fiscal year, topping the record of $156.8 billion set in fiscal 2014.
Brazil’s JBS bought 301,000 cattle from ‘irregular’ farms in the Amazon, audit finds
Nearly a third of the cattle bought by JBS SA (JBSS3.SA) in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para came from ranches with "irregularities" such as illegal deforestation, prosecutors found in a 2020 audit of the world's largest meatpacker released on Thursday.
Swiss agriculture, crop production hit by bad weather
Swiss agricultural output is expected to fall 6.6% this year due to bad weather conditions, the government said on Tuesday.
USDA vaccine candidate is effective against African swine fever
In an achievement the USDA described as a major step for science and agriculture, scientists at the Agricultural Research Service have developed a vaccine candidate that protects hogs from the deadly African swine fever. In the journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, the researchers said, “To our knowledge, this is the first report” of a vaccine candidate that is effective in Asian and European breeds of hogs.
India’s palm campaign has hard row to hoe with water, seedlings scarce
Tractor convoys trundled thousands of oil palm seedlings to new homes on farms across southeastern India this month, as the world's top importer of edible oil rolls out an ambitious $1.5-billion plan to boost output.
Commodity group Louis Dreyfus completes stake sale to ADQ
Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) said on Friday it had completed the sale of a 45% indirect stake to Abu Dhabi holding firm ADQ, marking the arrival of the first non-family shareholder in the agricultural commodity group’s 170-year history.
U.S. grain exports to avoid major disruptions from Ida -agriculture secretary
The United States will likely avoid major disruptions to grain shipments linked to damage from Hurricane Ida at the Gulf Coast, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday.
New coating could help seeds survive in drought conditions
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the King Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco have developed a new coating to help seeds survive and germinate in semiarid conditions. Their development has been published in the journal Nature Food.
Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers rally against farm laws
Hundreds of thousands of farmers gathered in India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, the biggest rally yet in a months-long series of demonstrations to press Narendra Modi's government to repeal three new agricultural laws.
