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German Fertiliser Demand, Imports Drop As Prices Soar

Germany's farmers are ordering less fertiliser, put off by soaring costs after major suppliers of synthetic plant nutrients have curtailed production, the...

Arla Announces Half-Year Supplementary Payment For Farmer Owners

Arla is paying out its first ever half year supplementary payment to farmer owners of €0.01 per kilogram of milk based on the milk volumes delivered i...

Jumbo Seeks To Clarify Position Over 'Milk Shortages'

Dutch retailer Jumbo has issued a statement seeking to clarify its current milk supply situation, after a number of stores posted 'ambiguous' in-store noti...

Ukraine Grain Storage Shortage Adds To Farmers' Woes

Ukraine has insufficient storage capacity even for its reduced 2022 grain harvest, the United Nations' World Food Programme said, with the country struggli...

Cutting Middlemen's Profit One Way To Boost Coffee Farmers' Gains, ICO Head Says

Increasing transparency and adjusting the size of gains for middlemen in coffee trading is one way to increase profits for coffee farmers, a major task for...

Carrefour Signs Charter With Farming Organisation Jeunes Agriculteurs

Carrefour has signed a charter with farmer representative group Syndicat des Jeunes Agriculteurs, under which it commits to support French agriculture and...

New Zealand Farmers Protest Over Environmental Policies

Farmers in New Zealand drove their tractors to the city on Friday in a protest demanding the government loosen its environmental policies an...

Ivory Coast Sells 2021/2022 Cocoa Contracts At 'Country Discount'

The world's top cocoa producer Ivory Coast had sold 950,000 tonnes of cocoa in contracts by the end of May for the 2021/2022 season at a country discount i...