Ag Europe
TOPIC(S): Ag Europe, Government / Policies, Carbon Farming,
TOPIC(S): Precision AG , Environment, Ag Europe,

12/06/2022 SOURCE: www.euractiv.com

Precision Agriculture - What do EU farmers want?

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?

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TOPIC(S): Economics, Ag United Kingdom, Ag Europe,

11/11/2022 SOURCE: ec.europa.eu

Value of agricultural output in the EU up 8% in 2021

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...

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TOPIC(S): Ag Europe, Climate Change, Weather,
TOPIC(S): Livestock/Meat, Beef Cattle, Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog, Ag Europe,
TOPIC(S): Equine/Horse, Ag Europe,
TOPIC(S): Soil Health, Agriculture Global, Fertilizer, Ag Europe, Regenerative Agriculture,
TOPIC(S): Organic, Beer/Brewing/Distilling, Ag Europe,
TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, GMO's, CRISPR/Gene Editing, Ag Europe, FDA, USDA, Weather,
TOPIC(S): Wheat, Agriculture Global, Ag Europe, Trending News,

09/13/2022 SOURCE: www.agriculture.com

Ukrainian winter wheat sowing underway, 3.5% complete - agriculture ministry

KYIV, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Ukrainian farms in almost all regions have started sowing winter wheat for the 2023 harvest, seeding 141,000 hectares, or 3.5% of the expected area, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.The ministry did not provide a forecast, although minister Mykola Solsky told Reuters last month that the area could fall to 3.8 million hectares from 4.6 million a year earlier due to the Russian invasion.The minister said that Ukraine's winter barley sowing area for the 2023 harvest could also fall by 20% from last year while the winter rapeseed area would remain unchanged.The mi

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