Increased sales into mature consuming countries as well as the development of new markets is driving the strong growth in global fertilizer demand over the past five years, and consumption growth is set to be more evenly spread across world regions, British consultancy CRU has said.
According to the report, mid-tier...
Leading Russian agricultural consulting firms SovEcon and IKAR have slashed their estimates for the country’s 2018 grain harvest due to cold wet conditions in the key spring wheat regions of Siberia and the Urals, Fomag reported.
The favorable weather brought Russia a record grains harvest of 135 million tonnes in 2017. The...
Cherkizovo, the second-biggest broiler meat producer in Russia, has culled all poultry stock at the Vertunoskyi poultry farm in Penza Oblast due to an outbreak of Avian influenza, Larisa Mokshina, a spokesperson for the company, has told Global Meat News.
According to Mokshina, that was an isolated farm producing hatching...
The growing trade war between the United States and China could benefit Russia’s agricultural giant RusAgro, CGTN reports. One of the country’s biggest agriculture companies says they are now targeting China as a key export destination.
According to RusAgro’s CEO, Maxim Basov, the company was about to sign its first...
Russian grain exports to China have hit the million ton mark for the first time this crop year, according to the country’s veterinary and phytosanitary agency, Rosselkhoznadzor.
Official data shows that from July 1, 2017 to May 15, 2018, a total of 1.23 million tons of grain from Russia was...
A temporary restriction on the import of poultry from Russia has been imposed in Kazakhstan, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture said a message, according to Trend news agency.
The Ministry’s Veterinary Control and Supervision Committee was lead to such a decision due to new outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian...
A U.S. seafood industry group is concerned that President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs against Chinese goods will help their main global competitor, the Russian pollock industry, Undercurrent news reports.
Trump’s administration is engaged in a trade war with China and plans to impose additional 10% to 25% tariffs on 6,031...
Russia’s biggest beef producer, Miratorg, has teamed up with renowned Russian restaurateur ArkadyNovikov to launch franchise program of the Farshburger restaurants network, Meatinfo.ru reported.
The move will multiply the number of restaurants and “stimulate the development of high-quality catering in the Russian regions,” the company said in a statement.
Miratorg opened...
After a record harvest last year, Russia increased its wheat export by a third and emerged as the leading world grain exporter in recent months. Together with other former Soviet Union countries’ rising exports, the global wheat market is now in a situation reminiscent of Soviet-era dominance, Bloomberg reports.
Russian...
Industrial pig farming in Primorsky Krai in Russia’s Far East region is under the threat of being ruined by Foot-and-mouth (FMD), regional governor Oleg Kozhemyako has said, according to Global Meat News.
Speaking at a meeting with the regional parliament in late April, Kozhemyako revealed that around 100,000 head of...
