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Agricultural production

  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Food security
    Middle East tensions could trigger food price shock, warns fertiliser boss

    Fertiliser prices have been ‘extremely volatile’ in the past two weeks, says CEO of leading crop nutrients group Yara

    Svein Tore Holsether
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Climate change
    Scientists accuse New Zealand and Ireland of trying to cover up livestock emissions

    ‘Accounting trick’ to support methane-emitting sectors undermines fight against climate change, say researchers

    Sheep on a New Zealand farm
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    JBS SA
    JBS says shareholders approve US listing for world’s largest meatpacker

    Green light overcomes opposition from environmental and governance advocates

    A worker spreads salted meat which will be dried and then packed at a plant of JBS
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Japanese economy
    Japan inflation climbs at fastest rate in more than 2 years

    High food prices pile pressure on central bank and unpopular Ishiba government

    People walk through Omotesando shopping street in Tokyo
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    JBS SA
    Brazilian brothers await crunch vote on US listing for meatpacker JBS

    World’s largest meat processor says move would unlock share price and cheaper funding

    A woman walks in front of the JBS meat factory, in Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil,
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    John Gapper
    The ‘megafarm’ that is part of the UK’s agricultural future

    A Norfolk campaign against Cranswick’s plans to raise more chickens and pigs may undermine food security

    Chickens at Cranswick’s Larling Farm in Quidenham, Norfolk
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    China suspends chicken imports from Brazil due to detection of bird flu

    South American nation had been the last big producer not affected by the outbreak

    Chickens at a poultry farm in Westfália, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    UK trade
    US targets Britain’s pork, poultry and seafood markets

    Agricultural sectors are ‘front of the line’ in ongoing trade talks, says Trump’s agriculture secretary

    Pigs crowded together in a pen on a farm
  • Monday, 21 April, 2025
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    Illinois farmers focus on planting rather than Trump tariffs

    Veterans of the trade wars, they know a great deal could change before the harvest

    Steve Pitstick
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    News in-depthCommodities
    ‘ABCD’ agricultural traders struggle to escape boom-bust cycle

    Companies that dominate global supply of grain and oilseed suffer from latest downturn despite efforts to diversify

    Storage tanks the Cargill Inc soyabean processing facility in Sidney, Ohio
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Agricultural commodities
    US grain prices fall as trade war sparks fears of glut

    Wheat and soyabean futures hit as China and Canada impose retaliatory tariffs on foodstuffs

    Wheat crops
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump’s tariffs will bring ‘nothing but pain’ to rural America, say farmers

    Agriculture industry warns that customers are looking elsewhere for key commodities

    A combine harvester loads soyabeans into a grain cart during a harvest in Pace, Mississippi
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Europe seeks to replace imported Russian fertilisers with local manure

    Commission expected to approve greater use of Renure, a product based on dung, to reduce revenues going to Moscow

    Cows at a farm in Westerbeek in the Netherlands
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    Food & Beverage
    European dairy boss says uncertainty about green rules holding back investment

    Chief executive of Arla blames drop in milk production on lack of clarity about EU regulation

    Calves are fed at Newlands farm in Bozeat, England which is part of Arla
  • Sunday, 16 February, 2025
    EU trade
    EU plans Trump-style import ban on food

    Brussels wants to block farm products containing prohibited pesticides

    A combine harvester unloads soyabeans into a grain cart during a harvest in Pace, Mississippi, US
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    News in-depthUS immigration
    ‘We’ll all have to go vegan’: Wisconsin dairy farmers fret over immigration crackdown

    Business groups warn agriculture sector will collapse without foreign labour

    John Rosenow stands for a portrait with his dog outside of a cow enclosure located at Rosenholm Dairy farm in Cochrane, Wisconsin
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    News in-depthTrump tariffs
    US farmers ‘prepare for the worst’ in new Trump trade war

    President’s latest tariff threats have sparked alarm in Republican breadbasket states such as Iowa

    Aerial view of a red combine harvester moving along a curved path and leaving a trail of harvested crops behind
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    UK agriculture
    Tenth of England’s farmland must be rewilded to hit climate targets, ministers estimate

    Under proposed ‘land use framework’, 760,000 hectares would need to be converted to woodland or heath by 2050

    A cutting machine harvests spinach on farmland near Dorchester, Dorset
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    Why goats are replacing cows in southern Africa

    A drought-hit province provides glimpses of the planet’s next phase 

    An hourglass against a blue background, with the top half containing a miniature savannah scene featuring elephants and trees, while sand flows into the bottom half
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    John Gapper
    James Dyson is right to fight for British strawberries

    The UK’s largest commercial farmer is trying to create a berry brand against intense global competition

    Dan Stockhill programming the robot picking arm machines
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Farmers gather in Whitehall in latest protest against UK Budget tax changes

    Tractors park up in main London thoroughfare in rally opposing government inheritance tax reforms

    Tractors are driven through Westminster on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    EU’s new agriculture chief seeks more funds for small farmers

    Christophe Hansen seeks changes to bloc’s multibillion-euro farm subsidy scheme

    Farmers protesting in Carcassonne, southern France
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Renewable energy
    US farmers protest against climate law loophole subverting green fuel crops

    American imports of used Chinese cooking oil as a biofuel feedstock have surged since passage of Inflation Reduction Act

    Soyabeans are harvested from a field on Hodgen Farm in Roachdale, Indiana, US
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    The Big Question
    The Big Question: Should farmers have to pay inheritance tax?

    The government says the levy targets landowners seeking to shelter wealth, but food producers say it will hit them hard

    FT montage of a tractor and ‘No farmers, No food’ protest banners with a large question mark between them
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Thousands of farmers protest in London against tax changes

    Union leader tells rally inheritance tax reforms are ‘kick in the teeth’ for the struggling sector

    A large crowd of farmers gathers at Whitehall, holding bright yellow signs that read "No Farmers No Food."
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