Supply Chain - EU

EU Wheat Drifts Lower As Slow Exports Weigh

Paris wheat futures fell on Thursday to their lowest in over a week, hit by weaker US prices and lagging western European exports. Benchmark March milli...

EU Farmers Battle Parched Soil To Harvest Smaller Sugar Beet Crop

A continuing lack of rain in Europe has slowed sugar beet harvesting as farmers struggle to lift the crop from parched soil, which could further shrink yie...

Drought Seen Driving EU Farmers To Sow More Wheat, Less Rapeseed

Parched soils have hampered late-summer rapeseed sowing in Europe, raising the prospect that farmers will shift towards attractively priced wheat for next...

European Parliament Targets Dual-Quality Consumer Products

The European Parliament has recommended several measures to tackle 'dual-quality', identically-branded consumer products in the EU. These include cross-...

Crop Damage Mounts For EU Farmers After Torrid Summer

European farmers are counting the cost of a summer heatwave that has shrunk cereal harvests and shrivelled pastures, leaving some farms struggling to survi...

EU Commissioner Suggests Broad Cuts To Tariffs With US

The European Union's budget commissioner suggested on Wednesday that the bloc would be ready to discuss mutual tariff cuts with the United States across a...

Euro Area International Trade Surplus Valued At €16.5bn

The value of goods exports from the euro area (EA19) to the rest of the world stood at €189.6 billion in May 2018, according to figures from Eurostat,...

Two-Fifths Of EU Land Area Used For Farming, Study Finds

A little over 171 million hectares of land in the European Union (EU) is used for agricultural production - about 40% of the EU's total land area, a new st...