A drought damaging this year’s wheat harvest in Germany is likely to cut the country's exports and customers may have to be supplied with grain from other regions, like Russia and Ukraine, leading German agricultural trading group BayWa AG said on Thursday.
The company’s CEO Klaus Josef Lutz said the company...
Russia's ministry of agriculture is considering plans to incorporate fishing industry services giant FSUE National Fish Resources (NFR), also known as Natrbresource, into a new state-owned company, Kommersant wrote citing a draft bill outlining the move’s details.
The move would enable NFR, which provides key services in main fishing ports in...
Frequent rain and high air humidity in July resulted in too wet topsoil in Russian grain fields, which has locally caused a dangerous agrometeorological event such as “excessive soil moisture content at the time of grain harvest,” UkrAgroConsult reports.
The European part of Russia was dominated by warm weather (up...
Russian veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday that the country has started supplying wheat to Brazil for the first time in eight years, Interfax news agency reports.
"The first lot of Russian wheat amounting to 26.2 thousand tonnes was shipped to Brazil from the Kaliningrad Region for the first...
Russia has destroyed more than 26,000 metric tons of food in the three years since the country’s government launched an embargo on imported agricultural products from Western countries in retaliation for U.S. and EU sanctions, Interfax reports.
The Kremlin ordered the physical destruction of food from the Western countries that...
Finnish food producers that came under Russia’s food embargo four years ago, hope to return to the Russian market, Esa Wrang, head of the Food from Finland program has told Russian media.
According to RIA news agency, Wrang added that the Finnish companies would like to return to Russia even though they have...
Russian farmers are again facing restrictions on grain exports via ports in the Baltic states, the Vice President of the Russian Grain Union Alexander Korbut said in a letter to Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeyev, according to Kommersant.
The Baltic states, notably Latvia, serve for grain shipments, which are expensive...
Over the past five years, Russia has reached self-sufficiency in pork and poultry says a recent report from USDA’s Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN).
“Overall, by 2018, Russia had met or exceeded six of the eight production targets set in its Food Security Doctrine of 2010. The successful development...
High protein Russian wheat prices in the coasters survey have rallied to a three-year high as a supply crunch pushes buyers to pay more, Russian analytical agency SovEcon reported.
The average export prices for Russian wheat (FOB, deepwater ports, protein 12.5%) for the past week increased by $9 to $216.5...
Major Russian meat producers Rusagro and RPBI have reportedly had to cull thousands of pigs following outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF) on their production facilities, despite claiming to have the highest level of biosecurity possible, RIA news agency reports.
The outbreaks, which hit farms in the European region of Russia, were...
