Agriculture

Sainsbury's Teams Up With Suppliers For 'Open Farm Sunday'

UK retailer Sainsbury's has teamed up with farmers in eight locations across the country for 'Open Farm Sunday' on 11 June. The retailer is sponsoring t...

Carrefour Enters Agreement To Develop Organic Agriculture

French retail group Carrefour has entered into an agreement with the Nouvelle Aquitaine Regional Chamber of Agriculture to develop organically-grown p...

South Africa Seen Raising Forecast For Biggest Corn Crop Since 1981

South Africa, the continent’s biggest corn grower, will probably increase its forecast for a bumper crop of the staple grain for a third time this ye...

Carrefour Unveils 'Urban Agriculture' Initiative

French retailer Carrefour has unveiled a vegetable garden on the roof of its Villiers-en-Bière hypermarket in Seine-et-Marne. The urban agricultu...

Metro Group Partners With Food Tech Startup Incubator

German retailer Metro Group has announced a partnership agreement with incubator Foundation StartLife Holding, with the goal of supporting food tech s...

Bird Flu Prompts Quarantines As Chicken Farmers Fight Back

The merest mention of bird flu is enough to send shivers down the spine of a chicken farmer, but as the US deals with its first case of highly pathogenic a...

UK Farmers Say Food Will Rot In Fields Without EU Labour

The UK agriculture industry will come to a standstill if the government doesn’t reach a deal that guarantees access to European labour, according to...

Agriculture Traders Feel Pain As Plentiful Harvests Persist

The era of excess in agriculture is squeezing agriculture traders dry. Years of bumper grain harvests, coupled with low prices and diminished volatility...