Farming

Eurostat: Farmland Dedicated To Organic Produce On The Increase Across Europe

Eurostat has announced that the amount of farmland being devoted to organic production is growing across the continent. Since 2010, the land cultivated sp...

Bleary Eyes Are Price Of Wheat Trading In World’s Top Market

Bleary eyes and missed dinners are now part of the job description for a wheat trader in the world’s most important market. It’s one consequ...

Russia Stuck With Record Wheat Stockpiles As Ruble Slows Exports

Russia is storing a record amount of wheat because the world’s biggest exporter can’t ship out its bumper crop fast enough. The country&rsqu...

Farm Groups Denounce Dannon’s Anti-GMO ‘Marketing Flimflam’

Several major U.S. farm organizations said they are “troubled” by The Dannon Co.’s shift to using fewer genetically-modified ingredients,...

French Sugar-Beet Harvest Set To Fall To Six-Year Low On Weather

Sugar-beet production in France will fall to a six-year low this season as adverse weather hurt yields, according to the Agriculture Ministry. Output in...

‘Catastrophe’ Seen By South Africa Agriculture Due To Drought

As South Africa’s worst drought in more than a century persists, crops besides grains are under threat as irrigation reservoirs drain, and that could...

Russia Becomes A Grain Superpower As Wheat Exports Explode

Almost 25 years after watching the Dawn of Communism collective farm where he grew up land in the dustbin of history, Andrey Burdin is helping turn Russia...

Russian Wheat Exports Disappoint As Low Prices Slow Farmer Sales

Russian wheat exports have not lived up to expectations so far this season, as falling prices made some growers reluctant to sell grain to traders amid a h...