03/11/2023 SOURCE: www.reuters.com
More than 10,000 Dutch farmers protested in The Hague on Saturday against government plans to limit nitrogen emissions, a policy they say will spell the end of many farms and hit food production.
Dutch farmers and climate activists protest over government policies
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Sustainability, Ag Europe, Regenerative Agriculture,
Eye in the sky: Agri satellites above Ukraine poised to avert crop disruptions and supply shortages
20 Jan 2023 --- A satellite platform operating in the skies above Ukraine, currently monitoring the country’s crucial crop outputs during wartime, is set to expand. It will offer collected data and analysis to other countries looking for help in rapidly assessing dynamic crop changes, potentially anticipating food chain disruption, shortages and famines. NASA Harvest and Planet Labs, in partnership with the University of Maryland in the US and the University of Strasbourg in France, have been using satellite imaging to analyze crops from above, tracking their day-to-day changes.
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Agriculture Global, Sustainability, Ag Europe, Renewable Energy (Solar/Wind),
Land of the Sun project in Italy
Starlight, a company within the NextEnergy Group focused on renewable asset development globally, iinitiated an innovative agri-eco-voltaics project in Italy called Land of the Sun.
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
01/03/2023 SOURCE: www.independent.ie
Mainstream media appears to be more interested in reporting on agricultural news in Ireland when there’s a crisis, ongoing research at UCD indicates.
‘Agriculture only gets covered when there’s a crisis’ – new research shows
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
12/13/2022 SOURCE: www.farmersjournal.ie
Ukrainian farmers are also covering the costs of filling a 6.4m metric tonne grain storage deficit themselves.
Efforts to increase Ukraine’s grain storage capacity pay off
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Agriculture Global, Ag Europe, Weather,
Agriculture is always a battle against nature
Sometimes we never stop to think about the obvious in that any form of agriculture is not natural, regardless of the farming system employed.
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
Randy Krotz
Topics: Consumer/Retail, Ag Europe, Organic, Agriculture US,
Will this trend move to the United States?
The big idea: has organic food passed its sell-by date?
Touted as a cure for environmental and physical ills, the organic movement is falling short of high expectations
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
12/12/2022 SOURCE: www.politico.eu
The bloc sees carbon farming as a way to combat climate change, but NGOs and small-scale farmers aren’t keen.
EU’s carbon farming plan comes under fire
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
12/06/2022 SOURCE: www.euractiv.com
This EURACTIV-GIGAEurope Digital Debate examined the role that digital technologies can play in global efforts to address food security issues and make agriculture more sustainable. Addressed questions included: - What are the current attitudes and adoption rates of precision agriculture tools of Europe’s farms? - What environmental challenges do farmers face and what is the role precision agriculture can play in tackling these? - What is industry doing to address farmers’ concerns around privacy and data ownership? - What sort of regulatory assurances can policymakers provide if farmers invest in precision farming tools?
Precision Agriculture - What do EU farmers want?
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
11/11/2022 SOURCE: ec.europa.eu
In 2021, agricultural output in the EU was valued at €449.5 billion (bn) in basic prices, representing an increase of 8% compared with 2020. This change stemmed from an increase in the price for agricultural goods and services as a whole (an estimated +7.5%), with volume of output remaining little changed from 2020 (an estimated +0.8%). This information comes from the economic accounts for agriculture (EAA) for 2021 published by Eurostat today. This news item presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article. Eurostat will also publish the first estimates of the EAA for the year 2022 on 19 December 2022. Almost three quarters of the value of the EU’s agricultural output in 2021 came from seven Member States; these were France (€82.4 bn, equivalent to 18% of the EU total), Italy (€61.2 bn, or 14%), Germany (€59.2 bn, or 13%), Spain (€57.1 bn, or 13%), the Netherlands (€30.6 bn, or 7%), Poland (€27.9 bn, or 6%) and Romania (€21.1 bn, or 5%). Source dataset: aact_eaa01 A majority of the EU Member States registered a rise in the value of agricultural output in 2021 compared with 2020. The sharpest rates of increase were recorded in Bulgaria (+37%), Romania (+25%) and Czechia (+16%). By contrast, the values of agricultural output in Finland, Malta and Cyprus remained broadly unchanged in 2021 from their respective levels in 2020, and decreased in Denmark (-2%) and Slovenia (-4%). Among other key Member States, the value of agricultural output increased by 10% in Spain, 8% in France and the Netherlands, 6% in Italy and Poland, and 3% in Germany. A little more than half (55%) of the value of the EU’s agricultural output in 2021 came from crops (€248.7 bn, +13% compared with 2020). A little more than one third (36%) came from animals and animal products (€163.1 bn, + 3% compared with 2020). The remaining share came from agricultural services and secondary activities. EU agricultural input costs not related to investment (intermediate consumption) were 10% h...
Value of agricultural output in the EU up 8% in 2021
-
(0)
-
Bookmark
- Comments (0)
Advertisement
