Limiting the Options Some policymakers in Brussels have held the view that tight limits on the use of pesticides and fertilizer can succeed if new breeding techniques (NBT’s) are used to genetically make plants hardier and self-sustaining. However, now it is reported that the German Agriculture Ministry, which is controlled by the Green Party, has come out in opposition to deregulating the technology. This could send European agriculture in the same direction as European energy – handcuffed from delivering what is needed. While Greens helped pushed through the Green Deal and Farm to Fork’s limits on farm inputs without a serious impact study, they are now insisting that a comprehensive impact assessment must be completed...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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