Agriculture

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...

Robotic Crop Pickers Limit Loss of Farm Workers To Trump Wall

Robotic devices like lettuce thinners and grape-leaf pullers have replaced so many human hands on US farms in recent years that many jobs now held by illeg...

Japanese Zen-Noh Buys Stake In Brazilian Joint Venture

Zen-Noh Grain Brazil, the local subsidiary of the Japanese Zen-Noh Grain Corporation, is now a member of the Brazilian Amaggi and Louis Dreyfus joint ventu...