In the foothills of Russia’s Urals mountains, a new potash producer is looking to become a major player in the global market for the fertilizer by the middle of the next decade, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Swiss-based EuroChem Group AG is owned by Russian businessman Andrei Melnichenko. The company makes nitrogen...
Russian food could soon begin to be exported to South Africa, Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev has said at the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, Interfax reports.
The minister added that an agreement on cooperation in the fishing and mariculture sectors is planned to be signed by governments of...
Mexican bread and pastry producers are looking for alternative suppliers of wheat to reduce their dependence on the United States as trade relations between the two neighbors deteriorate, The Hill reports.
Mexico is the top importer of U.S. wheat, but the country is increasingly turning to cheaper supplies from Russia,...
The Russian Agriculture Ministry has asked several agencies and authorities as well as retailers and industry associations, to submit proposals on changes to be made in Russia’s food security doctrine, Vedomosti reports.
The Ministry has already received proposals from the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo and the Agrofood policy center...
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...
More than 50 Russian farmers are on a tour through Canada as part of the Russian Dairy Motor Rally, NorthUmberlandNews.com reports.
The beginning of the five-day car rally toured the Russians through western Quebec farmland and Ottawa before stopping in Kawartha Lakes.
Vera Mozgovaya, chief editor of Moscow-based website The Dairy...
Commodity trading and mining company Glencore Plc is trying to buy the right to use more grain export capacity at Russia’s Port of Taman from Ukrainian agribusiness group Kernel Holding SA, World-Grain writes citing a report by Bloomberg.
The two companies currently each own 50% of the grain terminal complex...
Russia produced a record amount of soybean oil this season, despite this variety of vegetable oil amounting to only a fraction of the domestic demand, Black Sea Grain reported.
Soybean oil production in Russia amounted to 60.7-kilo metric tons (KMT) in May 2018, an increase of 2.4% in comparison to...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has backed Russia in its dispute with Ukraine over Kiev’s anti-dumping measures imposed in 2014 on Russian ammonium nitrate used as fertilizer, Kommersant writes.
The organization’s panel noted that Ukraine was also wrong when adjusting prices for Russian gas. Kiev followed the EU in implementing...
China will consider the possibility of expanding the list of Russian regions allowed to export grain products to the country, Russia’s agricultural watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, said in a statement on Friday, according to RIA news agency.
"The issue is about all Russian regions being allowed to supply wheat, soybeans, corn,...
