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UK company Wicks Manor has doubled its export revenue during the lockdown, offsetting losses from the food service sector while saving jobs and reducing waste.

Germany’s Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner is urging consumers to change their meat consumption habits.

German pig farmers experience significant disruption after one of the country’s largest abattoir’s closes due to a coronavirus outbreak.

The BMPA is criticising claims made by Unite the Union about working conditions in the UK's meat processing plants. The BMPA believes that Unite the Union's depictions are misleading and are muddying the waters in the fight to understand and combat the coronavirus crisis.…

The UN Food Agency reports that world food prices rose in June, marking their first increase of 2020 and rebounding after steep falls triggered by the coronavirus crisis.

China has suspended almost all pork imports from the Netherlands, citing COVID-19 outbreaks in Dutch abattoirs as the cause.

Over 30 percent of French and German farmers are reported as feeling demotivated because of “agri-bashing”.

Red Tractor has completed more than 6,300 remote sessions with farmers and has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from members.

The EU Farmers Confidence Barometer survey was carried out over the first semester of 2020 across ten EU Member States and showed a slight lift in farmers’ moods compared to that of autumn 2019.

The revamped trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States takes effect on 1 July.

Dr Irene Camerlink has been awarded the Young Animal Welfare Scientist of the Year 2020.

In a new report submitted to the UK's Migration Advisory Committee by the British Meat Processors Association, the BMPA offers solutions to the sector's recurring workforce challenges.

Syngenta Groups stresses that the agriculture sector's resilience has been tested by the coronavirus crisis, making the fight against more climate change more vital than ever.

US food and feed exporters are shipping goods to China with letters assuring the safety of their cargo instead of the official virus-free declarations required by Chinese authorities.

Germany’s Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner is pushing for an animal welfare levy in a bid to clean up the meat trade.

An industry group representing US agriculture producers says that Chinese demands that overseas suppliers guarantee that their shipments are free from COVID-19 contamination are making some shippers forego trading with China.…

An appeals court in Rio Grande do Sul state ruled that a JBS plant must close, overturning a lower labour court decision that permitted its re-opening.

US lean hog futures tumbled by the daily trading limit on Friday 26 June and ended much lower after the USDA reports that domestic supplies are above trade expectations.

UFCW, the largest meatpacking union in the US, reports that at least 65 meatpacking employees and 28 food processing workers have died from the novel coronavirus.

"Living Farms": Rudolf Steiner School in Kenya applies biodynamic farming.