Farmers

EuroCommerce: Christmas Rush No Longer About Protecting Farmers

EuroCommerce, the group that represents the retail and wholesale industries across Europe, has expressed its dismay at an Agriculture Council decision to c...

France Delays Food Price Rise For Farmers After Protests

France, reeling from protests over the cost of living, has said that it will delay a planned rise in minimum food prices, incurring the wrath of the main f...

Müller UK & Ireland Sets Out Growth Strategy

Müller UK & Ireland has announced the planned expansion of its Müller Milk & Ingredients arm, following the integration of Dairy...

Norgesgruppen Works With Farmers To Sell ‘Early Harvest’ Produce

Norway’s Norgesgruppen has announced that it is working alongside farmers to ensure that early harvest products are made available for sale in its st...

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...

German Poultry Farmers Seeking Price Rises As Drought Increases Costs

German poultry farmers are seeking price rises from supermarkets because this summer's drought has caused a surge in the cost of animal feed grain, produce...

Food Giants Nestlé, Hershey At Odds With Farmers Over GMO Labelling

The world's top food companies and farmers of crops such as beet sugar are pitted against each other as they lobby the U.S. government over plans to label...

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...