Politics and Food Safety Considering food security concerns, a majority on the EU Council has asked the Directorate for Health and Food Safety to provide additional data and analysis on the impact of the proposed sustainable use of plant-protection products (SUR). The directive includes a politically chosen target of a 50 percent reduction in the risk and use of chemical pesticides by 2030. However, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has elevated concerns that pesticide reductions could now threaten food security. The head of the Directorate, Stella Kyriakides, responded that:
She will comply with the request. The analysis will be “difficult and complicated.” She does not want this examination to delay implementation of th...
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...
