News summary: due to the ongoing surge of avian flu, the European market for eggs especially France is experiencing a rise in egg prices. France: The avian influenza epidemic is boosting the price of egg production by 77.3% over a year. With the avian influenza crisis raging strongly in Europe, the producer price of eggs remains particularly high. In February 2023,...

Unusual and extreme weather phenomena appear with increasing frequency. Farmers everywhere are now more insecure and anxious before the whims of God. Climate change is the most commonly named “crime.” “God” has changed, and is agriculture still standing? Many solutions, big and small, have been found through the efforts of agricultural scientists – important companions of farmers around the world....

The first edition of the Portugal Cheese Festival, in Alcains, takes place from May 5 to 7, continuing the dissemination of the tradition of Portuguese cheese production in Beira Baixa province, giving it a national and international dimension. “This is a remarkable moment for what is the development strategy of the municipality of Castelo Branco. This is a new concept [Portugal Cheese Festival]...

 Sichuan Province has entered the spring irrigation centralized water supply period. Recently, this reporter learned from the Provincial Rural Water Conservancy Center that at the end of March, the total water storage capacity of the water conservancy project in Sichuan Province was 6.5 billion cubic meters, which was less than in the previous years. Among them, the water storage capacity of large...

Livestock feed summary: Opec+’s announcement to cut oil production is creating turbulence among oilseeds. Wheat and sorghum prices remain steady, however. After losing nearly 10 percent over a month, the first week of April showed a slight recovery in Italy’s soybean prices listed on domestic commodity exchanges. Supporting quotations once again were the ongoing dynamics in international markets, influenced by lower...

Russia delivered $128 million worth of agricultural products to Brazil in 2022, 2.5 times more than in 2021. Due to such dynamics, the Latin American country was included in the top 50 buyers of Russian food list. The growth occurred mainly due to increased supply of wheat. Last year the shipment of grain amounted to 362 thousand tons worth 112...

In summary: in 2023, Polish farmers expect to pay a price not that much different from 2022’s high prices for such seeds as grain, sugar beet and services such as manure removal. This year’s price lists for agricultural services, after last year’s increases, have not changed much and are settling at similar price levels to the second half of last...

In the village of Schlöben, Thuringia, inhabitants have made it-they live completely energy self-sufficient, without quarrels and without quarrels. But how did the inhabitants manage this? The MDR documentary “Dorf unter Strom – Das Selbstversorger-Dorf” has investigated this question. The mayor Hans-Peter Perschke from Schlöben is both a dairy farmer and an energy farmer. The manure comes into the biogas...

A press release made by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Turkey, reads as follows: “There is a need to make a press release regarding onion production (in Turkey) and market supply in our country. According to the last ten-year averages, 2 million and 100 thousand tons of dry onions were produced annually in our country and the production...

LAM DONG: New strawberry variety in Vietnam PS8.10 is resistant to powdery mildew and anthracnose and has a yield of over 30 tons/ha. Especially, the ripe fruit is very fragrant, delicious, sweet, and popular in the market. Snow white strawberries cost from 700,000 to 900,000 VND/kg ( from US$29.85/kg) but they are not enough to sell. The Research Center for Potatoes, Vegetables...