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Precision agriculture provides farmers and livestock farmers with solutions adapted to their context. Data from sensors, cameras, satellites and meteorological stations are processed by […]

Consultation process The trade policy review process will be based on broad consultations with stakeholders, including through public debates undertaken across the EU Member States and through written submissions. Stakeholders are invited to provide their responses to the questions set out above by 15 September 2020 to the functional mailbox: trade-policy-review-2020@ec.europa.eu. ‘The European Commission is…

Loss of 40 billion in constant euros, Maintained in current euros,Less for the recovery, 40% of the budget to be oriented on climate & environment  21 July 2020 After a 4-day marathon European Council, the Heads of State and Government gave the European Union a budget of €1074.3 billion for the period (in 2018 constant…

By Horacio Gonzalez Aleman, Thoffood – Madrid – May 7, 2020. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, it is difficult to focus on anything else than crisis management. Member States, European Institutions, Trade Associations, are all struggling with urgent problems, and under those circumstances it is difficult to see the wood for the trees.…

Readers might think that they have already read about this, but the fact is that in the US a new layer of support to help agriculture cope with the Covid-19 crisis was launched this week. This support package is the third since the beginning of the crisis, so yes you have read about increased support…

Comagri MEPs yesterday voted on the position they intend the European Parliament to take in negotiations with the Council (and the Commission) on the CAP transitional provisions until the future CAP reform, which they foresee for 1 January 2023 at the earliest, is in place. This position should officially become that of the European Parliament…

The US has announced a new package of support to help farmers cope with the brutal Covid-19 crisis. It will include $16 billion in direct payments to livestock producers, fruit and vegetable growers and other sectors, plus $3 billion in commodity purchases. The US government committed to buying every month $100 million in fresh produce, $100…

In all major crisis there is a moment of denial, a moment of blame and a moment of reckoning. We are experiencing a major and unprecedented crisis, a crisis on which states decided to stop economic activity to protect lives. Unfortunately we see many still in denial of the inevitable impact on agriculture. Farm Europe…

The Covid19 health crisis has taken hold on the economic sectors with significant effects. These effects are likely to be long-lasting, with a recession threatening the European Union and other world economies. This crisis also highlights the importance of food security. Some in the European Union may have tended to take it for granted, or…

The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the wine trade, both European and non-European. All wine markets are affected. In addition to other things, this month of March have seen more than 50 MEPs asking, via a letter, the European Commission to take exceptional measures to support the agri-food sector, including the wine industry, a sector penalised…

In March, EASAC, the Scientific Advisory Council of European Academies, called for a radical reform of the legal framework for GMOs, and considered that new varietal selection techniques can help, inter alia, to combat social inequalities. Paolo De Castro MEP, S&D coordinator at Comagri,, agreed with EASAC’s request and called for European agriculture to be…

March was marked as follows: At the level of the European Parliament, measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic have stopped all meetings of the Agriculture Committee. However, negotiations on compromise amendments are continuing. At EU Council level, the meeting on 23 March was cancelled for the same reasons, and the informal summit on the 25th…