Agri Politics
Unease in France over 'insufficient' EU aid package
France is to receive €62.9m from the €500m direct aid support package from the European Commission, the second highest envelope in...
Agri Politics
France is to receive €62.9m from the €500m direct aid support package from the European Commission, the second highest envelope in...
Agri Politics
There are now 88 cases of bluetongue in France, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has confirmed. Of the...
Agri Politics
There has been an outbreak of bluetongue in a sheep and cattle herd in Allier, France, the department of agriculture in...
Agri-Business
Former Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Tom Moran, has been appointed to the board of French meat processor...
Sheep
Shipments of sheepmeat to France from Ireland were down 10% at 7,600t in the first six months of 2015, according...
Beef
French beef and veal imports fell by 4% in the first six months of 2015, with lower shipments from Ireland,...
Tillage
French wheat production is set to top 40m tonnes, according to state body FranceAgriMer. In its latest crop update it said...
Beef
The ongoing pressure in France for on French retailers to stock only french produce is escalating, according to ABP. The...
Sheep
UK lamb prices recently hit their lowest level since early 2013 and several factors add up to a ‘perfect storm’...
Agri Politics
The immigrant crisis in the French port of Calais coupled with continued ‘militant’ French farmer protest is creating huge difficulties...
Agri Politics
Over the past week French farmers have blockaded roads, set pyres of tyres on fire and set pigs lose in...
Agri Politics
Over 1,000 farmers in France today (July 27) set up roadblocks blocking food imports from Germany and Spain. This is the latest...
Agri Politics
UK farmers staged a rolling tractor road block last week on the A50 in Staffordshire, UK, in protest about falling...
Sheep
Imports of sheepmeat to France in the first five months of 2015 are now 8% lower than year earlier levels at 38,500t,...
Agri Politics
Climate change is not science fiction and right now we are failing future generations, according to Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Terminator star...
Beef
A significant number of retailers in France have suspended purchases of imported meats in the wake of large farmer demonstrations...
Agri-Business
Liffey Meats has confirmed that it has taken a majority shareholding in the French meat processor Chiron Viandes. A spokesperson...
Agri Politics
French farmers have caused total gridlock in northwestern France in recent days, by blocking the roads with their tractors and machinery...