LivestockAfter the 'Pig Election', Denmark's government wants fewer live pig exports, a tail-docking phase-out by 2030, a 12-month freeze on new units and far stricter nitrate limits, while prices sit near £1/kg.
CropsA joint committee vote planned for 5 October did not happen. The Omnibus X plan would stretch approvals for most pesticide active substances from 10-15 years to as long as 25, by one NGO's estimate.
The Appellate Division chamber court has stayed a High Court order that put a status quo on the integrated policy for appointing fertiliser dealers and distributing fertiliser, under which more than one member of a family may not hold a dealership.
CropsWith the 2018 farm law expired on 30 September, USDA's Farm Service Agency has stopped approving new Conservation Reserve Program contracts while Congress has yet to agree a new bill.
The Council's negotiating position on the Omnibus X package allows unlimited approval only for low-risk substances and sets 15 years for first approvals and 25 for renewals, ahead of talks with Parliament.
OpinionAGRA communications chief Aggie Konde argues that African institutions should be organised and judged by whether they jointly raise the returns of farming enterprises, not by roads built or budgets spent one by one.
AgribusinessWillie Aucamp says the Agriculture and Agro-processing Master Plan needs more momentum, from 10,000 trained extension officers to secure land tenure, faster input registrations and new export markets.
AgribusinessIn a letter to Andy Burnham, the alliance's chairman Lord Herbert puts the reforms to agricultural and business property relief at the top of a list of rural grievances, backed by polling on rural voters.
EnvironmentSix producer groups told Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada that its national soil health strategy needs farmer-led research, regional metrics and room for small and unconventional farms.
AgribusinessGovernor Jim Pillen has signed two executive orders letting Nebraska farmers and haulers use untaxed dyed diesel on the highway and run up to 25% over legal weight limits while the harvest is moving.
LivestockTwo letters from MEPs urge a full ban six months after the Commission missed its own March deadline to respond to the Fur Free Europe citizens' initiative.
The European Parliament has voted against a Commission proposal to let fertiliser and other products be temporarily lifted out of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism when prices spike, but Ireland South MEP Seán Kelly says the 362-272 margin gives its opponents a weak mandate for the trilogue on
Indian farmers can choose from about 380 pesticide active ingredients against some 1,200 available worldwide, and the industry body says restricting existing molecules without letting better ones in would be a double blow; it wants science-based curbs and five years of regulatory data protection.
