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West Africa’s (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Senegal) Marketing Year (MY) 2017/18 cotton production is forecast down to 2.8 million 480 lb. bales primarily due to drought and high pest pressures....

France is currently the largest seafood market by value in the EU28 with sales at $5.5 billion.

Following the EU’s decision to extend the authorization of glyphosate for another five years, French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that he asked the Government of France....

The total MY2017/18 EU-28 grain crop is revised up 2 MMT to 304 MMT, due to improved outlooks for both the wheat and corn crops.

Consumers in search of butter in French retail markets are facing scant or bare shelves.

For MY 2017/18, total area and production levels for West Africa are estimated to increase 2.75 percent to 2.95 million 480 lb. bales assuming good weather and strong farm gate prices.

A shifting political landscape in the EU has led to fears that voting “against” import authorization of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops is becoming perilously close to a new norm.

Updated import duties of Euro 5.16 per metric ton are applied on corn, sorghum and rye from August 8, 2017.

The EU28 grain harvest is now under way in most Member States.

Although public opinion in France is generally opposed to products derived from biotechnology, the livestock industry is dependent upon imported genetically engineered (GE) products....

On February 2, 2017, the European Commission launched a consultation on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in order to better understand where the current policy can be simplified....

For MY 2016/17 (August to July) total cotton production for Burkina Faso, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal is estimated to rise 18 percent to 1.8 million metric tons (MMT) due to higher area....