Ciaran Mullooly told the trade commissioner during the Union Customs Code debate in Strasbourg that Northern Ireland's position makes the UK's continued imports of Brazilian beef a customs and enforcement question for the single market.
Milk was 16.6% cheaper and cereals 5.6% cheaper in the second quarter of 2026 than a year earlier, with output prices down in 20 member states, led by Denmark and Ireland, while energy rose 22% and fertiliser 13.4%, squeezing margins across the bloc.
The 2023 law entering into force in September 2026 sets up permits, state registers, labelling thresholds of 0.1-0.9% and enforcement, bans open-field GM maize indefinitely and GM sugar beet and rapeseed for five years, and cancels every GMO registration not permitted in the EU the day Ukraine joins
A new €5 million EU-funded project will set up four service hubs linking Afghan farmers to advice, agribusinesses and markets, and restore 2,000 hectares of degraded forest and rangeland.
At a seminar on shaping agriculture and agribusiness education for climate resilience, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Md Rafiqul Islam Sarder called for technology to be built into research, while coordinator Prof Dr Mohammad Jahangir Alam set out innovation clusters at five universities, curriculum modern
The twin frameworks will guide Horizon Europe 2028-2034 and parts of the European Competitiveness Fund, putting weight on testing solutions with farmers and getting them to market; Euroseeds welcomed the naming of plant breeding as a cornerstone of cropping systems and asked for matching money under
The province and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's food network will work on Horizon Europe research funding, market connections, the Knowledge Triangle model, investment readiness and knowledge exchange, building on EIT Food's 2026 tie-up with AgSphere.
Under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1189 Brazil lost authorisation to export poultry and several other animal products after missing a 3 September deadline to prove its controls exclude growth-promoting and human-reserved antimicrobials; AVEC wants relisting only after a Commission audit that be
Under an agreement with the European Energy Exchange, CME will launch its own European dairy indices, futures and options and inherit the EEX butter and skimmed-milk-powder indices before the end of 2027, weeks before Euronext launches rival contracts on 19 October.
Technology that determines a chick's sex inside the egg has gone from zero to 40% of the EU layer market in five years, driven by bans on male chick culling, while in the United States only premium brands have adopted it and retailers refuse to pay extra.
Companies linked to the Al Nahyan family and the Abu Dhabi fund ADQ received more than €71 million in EU farm subsidies in six years for farmland in Romania, Italy and Spain, an investigation found.
