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76% of U.S. corn crop in good or excellent condition

July 21, 2016 Around 76% of the 2016-2017 U.S. corn crop was in good or excellent condition in the week that ended Sunday, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Brexit trade solutions seen as key to pork sector

July 21, 2016 Future trade issues relating to non-EU countries are important for the pork sector following the Brexit vote, according to the second specialist post-referendum report by AHDB.

Local food standards sticking point in EU-U.S. free trade talks

July 21, 2016 EU-wide agricultural organisation Copa and Cogeca said EU standards must be recognised in the transatlantic trade talks (known as TTIP).

Delivering MSC certification in Asia-Pacific region

July 21, 2016 ME Certification has delivered a series of training seminars to business partner Control Union in Cambodia.

UK summers getting wetter, plants are benefiting

July 21, 2016 The Environmental Change Network (ECN) has found that summers in Britain are getting wetter, soils are becoming less acidic and plant species are benefitting from this.

Defra found guilty of manipulating milk price stats

July 21, 2016 The Director General of the UK Statistics Authority, Ed Humpherson, has agreed with a complaint raised by a dairy industry analyst over milk price statistics used by Defra.

U.S., Vietnam reach agreement on shrimp imports

July 20, 2016 The United States and Vietnam have signed an agreement to resolve two longstanding World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes over imports of Vietnamese shrimp to the United States.

UK retailers using fake farm branding to boost sales

July 20, 2016 The NFU has made a formal complaint to National Trading Standards over the use of fake farm branding on food products used by some of the UK’s major retailers.

Soil Association asks bread companies to avoid glyphosate

July 20, 2016 In debates over glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide which has become a focal point of controversy in the EU in recent months, European legislators called for restrictions on pre-harvest use of the herbicide.

Animal feed manufacturers criticize EC over feed decisions

July 20, 2016 Europe’s animal feed manufacturers have described 2015/16 as an "extraordinarily challenging year" for farmers, with a message that the European Commission (EC) continues to fail the feed sector on a number of issues.

14 Mediterranean fisheries to undergo MSC pre-assessment process

July 20, 2016 WWF and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) said fourteen Mediterranean fisheries selected to undergo the MSC pre-assessment process as part of Project Medfish.

Pew calls for fishing moratorium on Pacific bluefin tuna

July 20, 2016 The Pew Charitable Trusts has called for a two-year moratorium on commercial fishing of Pacific bluefin tuna, after this year’s stock assessment has shown that the population is at just 2.6% of its historic size.