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File photo of a canola field in northern France’s Normandy region. (Brasil2/iStock/Getty Images)

Shut out of China, Canada finds canola buyers in drought-damaged Europe

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News August 22, 2019

Winnipeg/Paris | Reuters — Crop-scorching drought in Europe is providing Canadian canola farmers a timely new opportunity to move supplies that have piled up since China stopped buying this year. Rising European sales are taking some of the sting out of losing the Chinese market for Canadian farmers, although ICE canola futures prices are down […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Sausage-loving Germans chew over meat tax plan

By Reuters, GFM Network News August 7, 2019

Berlin | Reuters — German lawmakers on Wednesday proposed raising the sales tax on meat to help protect the climate and improve animal welfare, kindling a debate in a country renowned for its love of sausages. Meat in Germany benefits from a reduced value added tax rate of seven per cent, and the idea is […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

EU says ready to launch U.S. trade talks, but without agriculture

By GFM Network News April 15, 2019

Brussels | Reuters — The European Union is ready to start talks on a trade agreement with the United States and aims to conclude a deal before year-end, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Monday. The EU approved two areas for negotiation, opposed by France with an abstention from Belgium. But agriculture was not […] Read more

A file photo of rapeseed fields near Vouziers in France’s Ardennes department. (Photopixal/iStock/Getty Images)

Canola, Crops, Reuters

French rapeseed farmers destroy 18,000 hectares over GMO risk

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 5, 2019

Paris | Reuters — French farmers destroyed a total of 18,000 hectares of rapeseed, more than double the area initially expected, following the discovery of a non-authorized genetically modified organism (GMO) in seeds, German group Bayer said on Friday. Bayer had announced in February that farmers in France and Germany were turning over thousands of […] Read more

Berith, Jonas Karl and Bernd Klänhammer.

Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: Bernd Klänhammer

Bernd Klänhammer’s 200-year old family farm was lost in the 50s, then regained

By Marianne Stamm February 27, 2019

Every farm has its own story. No two farms (or farmers) are exactly alike. Everyone got started in a different way, and every farm has a different combination of family and hired staff who make the decisions and keep things running. But, in general, even after you consider all of the details, farmers are more […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Lightest harvest in years expected for Germany

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News August 10, 2018

CNS Canada — Drought and heat continue to pound Germany’s crops and analysts now expect the lightest harvest in 24 years, the association of German farm co-operatives DRV said in an Aug. 8 harvest report. The harvest for all grains is expected to decline to about 36.3 million tonnes, a 20.3 per cent fall and […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

German farmers seek 1 billion euros in drought aid

By GFM Network News July 30, 2018

Hamburg | Reuters – Farmers in Germany need special aid of around 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) because of damage to harvests caused by drought and heatwave, the head of German farming association DBV said on Monday. The aid should be paid to farmers who have lost 30 percent and more of their harvests, DBV […] Read more

A barley field in France. (Anneke DeBlok/iStock/Getty Images)

Barley, Crops, Reuters

France to the rescue as drought hits EU barley crop

By Reuters, GFM Network News July 19, 2018

Hamburg | Reuters — Drought has seriously damaged barley harvests in northern Europe, potentially tightening supplies of animal feed and malt for beer brewing, but a decent crop in France could save the day, experts said on Thursday. “There are painful crop losses in Germany, Poland, Britain and Scandinavia,” one German trader said. “The volume […] Read more

Columns

Reporter’s Notebook: Idealizing a particular view of a culture

When you romanticize what you don’t understand, disappointment is inevitable

By Lisa Guenther May 4, 2018

I learned a new word this week. “Indianthusiasm,” a term coined by author and professor Hartmut Lutz, describes people (often German) who have an exaggerated, ahistorical, romantic infatuation with North America’s First Nations people. This was just one gem among many in Canadian author Drew Hayden Taylor’s short documentary, Searching for Winnetou. Winnetou is a […] Read more

The Elbe River at Oberrathen, southeast of Dresden. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Reuters

Germany plans to toughen conditions for insecticide use

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 2, 2018

Berlin | Reuters — Germany plans to make it more difficult for farmers to use crop insecticides in a bid to preserve biodiversity, an environment ministry document showed. “Insect biomass has fallen by more than 75 per cent in the last 27 years in Germany,” according to the paper seen by Reuters on Wednesday, saying […] Read more

GFM Network News

China imports no US soybeans for third month; Argentine arrivals up 634 per cent

USDA confirms bird flu case in Wisconsin dairy herd as new wildlife spillover

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Modest increases for cash prices

Tag Archives Germany

Shut out of China, Canada finds canola buyers in drought-damaged Europe

Sausage-loving Germans chew over meat tax plan

EU says ready to launch U.S. trade talks, but without agriculture

French rapeseed farmers destroy 18,000 hectares over GMO risk

Meet your farming neighbours: Bernd Klänhammer

Lightest harvest in years expected for Germany

German farmers seek 1 billion euros in drought aid

France to the rescue as drought hits EU barley crop

Reporter’s Notebook: Idealizing a particular view of a culture

Germany plans to toughen conditions for insecticide use

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