Government and regulatory

The UK’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee is exploring the logistics of moving animals across UK borders now that they are outside of the EU trading bloc. What are the main sticking points?

Russia’s economy ministry is proposing a number of measures like retail price cuts and restrictive export taxes on grain and sunflower seeds to tackle rising food inflation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Russian poultry products could be next on the list.…

The European Commission on 25 March said it would expand financial and policy support to help achieve a goal for a quarter of Europe's farmland to be organic by 2030.

New Impact Report from the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) reveals the real cost of Brexit to the UK meat industry.

US Supreme Court justices appear ready to further curb the power of organized labor in the United States by rolling back a decades-old California regulation that lets union organizers enter agricultural properties without an employer's consent.…

Canada's farmers on on the front lines of worsening climate impacts - so adopting best practices and climate-smart policies is the best way to become resilient.

The NFU believes new precision breeding techniques, such as gene editing, could protect crops and animals from pests and disease, help deliver net zero and allow farmers to produce more home-grown food.

A $2 trillion group of investors have urged the European Commission to be more ambitious in its planned overhaul of the bloc's huge farming subsidy programme to fight climate change and protect biodiversity.

The UK government plans to lift existing poultry housing measures, but will keep the Avian Influenza Prevention Zone and mandatory biosecurity measures.

NFU President Rob Larew says that the Farm Workforce Modernization Act will create a more functional and compassionate farm labor system.

South Africa has set up a 5 billion rand ($340 million) fund to help Black farmers gain access to capital and boost their role in commercial agriculture, state-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the government said on 18 March.…

In an opinion piece, Cogeca President Ramón Armengol explains that the future of EU agriculture will depend on consistency between the Green Deal and EU trade policy.

Migrant farm workers in Britain are being trapped and mistreated by employers in conditions ripe for modern slavery, campaigners say, urging the government to review a scheme designed to avoid agricultural labor shortages post-Brexit.…

Copa and Cogeca have expressed concerns over an amendment to the proposed EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), fearing that it will make fertilizer prices skyrocket.

Ukraine, a major supplier of poultry products, says it has agreed with the European Union to separate Ukrainian bird flu-free and affected areas, which would allow Kyiv to resume poultry exports to the trading bloc.

Farm income could decline in 2021, in spite of large increases in the value of crop and livestock sales, according to the latest analysis of national and global agricultural trends from the University of Missouri.

Leading food companies across the EU sent a joint letter to the EU Commission and Members of the EU Parliament on 17 March, calling for a phase out in the use of cages in animal farming, starting with enriched cages for laying hens.…

The Managing Director of one of the UK's leading providers of Official Veterinarians and Meat Hygiene Inspectors has strongly criticised the UK Government’s decision to further delay checks on goods entering Great Britain from the European Union.…

Latest poultry mortality figures in Maharashtra, India show that 5,819 birds have died as of 13 March, as the local government promises to compensate poultry farmers for their losses.

The number of women in the EU's farming sector has been slowly increasing, with Baltic countries showing the highest proportion of farms that are managed by a woman.