farmers
By Sergei Pivovarov and Olga Popova ROSTOV REGION, Russia (Reuters) – Under the sweltering sun and in temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, farmers in the Rostov region, Russia’s breadbasket, toil to salvage a harvest battered by heatwave, frosts and floods. Accounting for 11% of Russia’s total grain harvest last year,…
By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila HOHOE DISTRICT, Ghana (Reuters) – Low prices and payment delays are pushing Ghana’s cocoa farmers to sell to increasingly sophisticated smuggling rings, siphoning off production from border areas and raising doubt over next season’s output, growers and officials told Reuters. Failure to end the financing logjam…
By Corina Pons, Emma Pinedo and Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) – China’s dumping probe into EU pork imports following duties slapped on Chinese EVs, caught Spain’s pig farmers on the hop this week, but the sector has proved it is resilient and far less vulnerable than the bloc’s car industry.…
By Heather Schlitz SMITH CENTER, Kansas (Reuters) – In a tiny town surrounded by miles of rippling wheat fields, Brady Peterson’s restaurant sits nearly empty during what should be a Saturday lunch rush. Normally, Pete’s would be filled with farmers ordering fried chicken and cheeseburgers, but as farm income thins,…
UK telecoms giant Virgin Media is suing a fishing trawler for more than $870,000, according to Irish media, accusing those on board of damaging one of its undersea fiber optic cables.The case relates to an incident that took place more than nine years ago.According to the Irish Independent, Virgin Media…
By Karl Plume CHICAGO (Reuters) – Mark Tuttle planted more soy and less corn on his northern Illinois farm this spring as prices for both crops hover near three-year lows and soybeans’ lower production costs offered him the best chance of turning a profit in the country’s top soy producing…
By Amanda Perobelli and Lisandra Paraguassu ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil (Reuters) – After three days of ferocious rains, Edite de Almeida and her husband fled their flooded home in early May and let loose their humble dairy herd on higher ground. Nearby, the waters rose above her head and within…
By Maximilian Heath PERGAMINO, Argentina (Reuters) – In the fields of Pergamino in Argentina’s grain heartland, farmer Adrian Farroni is revving up his soybean harvest late, delayed by rains that along with low prices have led to the country’s slowest soy sales in a decade. The South American country’s slow…
By Heather Schlitz (Reuters) – Profit is growing further out of reach for U.S. wheat farmers and many do not expect to break even in 2024 as ample global supply keeps prices around their lowest in nearly four years at the same time costs including equipment and transport remain high.…
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – Dairy farmers in the United States are raising their defenses to try to contain the spread of bird flu: banning visitors, cutting down trees to discourage wild birds from landing, and disinfecting vehicles coming onto their land. North Carolina on Wednesday became the seventh…
