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France Lets Farmers Use More Pesticides To Protect Sugar Output

French farmers will be allowed to apply more pesticides on their sugar beet fields this year due to a high risk of attacks from an insect carrying a diseas...

EU Countries To Demand Bloc Does More To Help Farmers, Draft Statement Says

European Union country leaders will urge the EU to work quickly on more measures to support farmers in response to months of protests by angry ag...

EU Parliament Passes Nature Law Despite Political Backlash

The European Parliament approved a flagship law to restore nature, salvaging at least part of EU plans to protect the environment after farmers' protests i...

Spain's Paella Rice Could 'Disappear', Say Farmers Angry At EU Rules

Spanish rice variety traditionally used to make paella is under threat from a fungus after the European Union banned a pesticide farmers said the...

Brazil's Pesticides Market Faces Headwinds After Feeble 2023

Extreme weather threatening Brazilian crops and last year's slump in agricultural chemicals sales are pressing concerns for the country's pesticides indust...

Nestlé US Advances Regenerative Agriculture Practices

Nestlé US has announced it is investing in regenerative agriculture practices in its wheat farms within its Digiorno pizza brand supply chain.

EU Seeks To Relax Gene-Edited Crop Restrictions

The European Commission proposed revising its rules on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to loosen some restrictions for plants resulting from newer ge...

French Sugar Beet Pesticide Alternative Could Be Five Years Away

Research into alternatives to neonicotinoid pesticides, found to be toxic to bees, is unlikely to deliver a solution capable of fully protecting sugar beet...