Agriculture

Spar Austria Announces Own-Label Range Focused On Domestic Agriculture

Spar Austria has announced that it is to launch a new private-label line showcasing local producers on the packaging, as it seeks to promote domestic agric...

North American Farmers Profit As Consumers Pressure Food Business To Go Green

Beer made from rice grown with less water, rye planted in the off-season and the sale of carbon credits to tech firms are just a few of the changes North A...

Associated British Foods Sees Hit To Primark Sales From Autumn Lockdowns

Associated British Foods, the owner of clothing retailer Primark, raised its estimate of sales lost during temporary closures of stores in major markets in...

US Farmers Plant More Winter Wheat As Grain Prices Rally

US farmers expanded seedings of winter wheat this autumn for the first time in eight years as strong demand and dry weather in several producing count...

Food Workers, Rural Americans Go Hungry Despite US Government Farm Aid

Yessenia Cendejas pulled up to a moving truck filled with donated food in northeastern Wisconsin, arriving at the mobile food bank straight from her job at...

US Farmers Scramble For Help As COVID-19 Scuttles Immigrant Workforce

The coronavirus has delayed the arrival of seasonal immigrants who normally help harvest U.S. wheat, leaving farmers to depend on high school students, sch...

Germany To Ease Restrictions On Seasonal Workers

Germany will from next week relax entry restrictions for seasonal workers introduced to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a government source has said....

EU Seeks To Reset Relationship With Nature After COVID-19 Crisis

The European Union will step up efforts to make food production more sustainable and halt biodiversity loss, after the coronavirus pandemic has expose...