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2023.11.29
Countries urged to curb factory farming to meet climate goals
Restricting factory farming should play a key role in efforts to cut climate-warming greenhouse gases, an environmental charity said on Wednesday, as emissions from "food systems" emerge as a major focus of COP28 climate talks in Dubai starting Thursday.
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2023.11.28
Precision layer nutrition for quality eggs
Precision nutrition strategies to extend the laying cycle are becoming increasingly important as farmers look to extend brown and white birds to 80 weeks and 380 eggs, and 100 weeks and 500 eggs, respectively.
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2023.11.28
Canada prevails over U.S. in dairy dispute
U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai said the administration “will continue to work this issue with Canada and we will not hesitate to use all available tools to enforce our trade agreements.”
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2023.11.27
A renewed uptick in food inflation as fruit and vegetable prices surged in October 2023
South Africa’s headline inflation quickened more than expectations and edged closer to the upper end of the SARB’s target range of 3% to 6%, coming in 5.9% year-on-year 9y/y) in October, from 5.4% y/y in September 2023.
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2023.11.24
Rwanda scientists conducting field trials on new resilient, high yielding potato varieties poised to up farmers’ production
In a bit to boost the country’s potato production, scientists at Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) are currently conducting field trials on some two new potato varieties resilient to hot conditions and can yield up to 25-40 tonnes per hectare.
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2023.11.23
Vegetation stressed in Brazil's top soy state as rains disappoint
Insufficient rainfall in Brazil’s top soybean and corn growing state of Mato Grosso has raised questions about the country’s soybean potential. Some industry participants believe a record crop is still possible
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2023.11.23
Markets bowled over by the quality of this year’s cherry crop
Cherry season is one of the briefest, but also most exciting times on the South African fruit calendar and it is currently in full swing.
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2023.11.22
Croatia reports bird flu outbreak on poultry farm
The outbreak infected five poultry among a flock of 19,600 on a farm in the county of Brodsko-Posavska near the Bosnian border, the Paris-based WOAH said in a report, citing Croatian authorities.
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2023.11.22
IFAD lists its sustainable bonds on the London Stock Exchange – ringing the bell for rural development
Private investors are a powerful force to help us fund a world where no one is left behind, said Alvaro Lario, President of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
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2023.11.21
Argentine farmers: Milei victory an opportunity for 'radical change' for grains sector
Javier Milei's election as Argentine president offers an opportunity for "radical change" in policy for the grains sector, the country's main rural associations said late on Sunday, offering to work "side by side" with the libertarian.