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Poland’s lower Chamber of Parliament (Sejm) approved a draft amendment to the 2006 Feed Act to postpone the Act’s ban on genetically engineered (GE) feeds and GE-derived ingredients....

Post estimates that swine inventories will decrease by 1 percent in 2018 due to low farm-gate prices and growing feed costs stemming from the 2018 drought.

Post estimates Polish corn production in marketing year (MY) 2018/19 at 3.2 million metric tons (MMT), a 20 percent decrease from MY 2017/18.

Post forecasts that Polish milk production in 2018 will increase by 2 percent over 2017.

Post used CSSF funds to promote U.S. genetics and soybean meal to Polish stakeholders in April.

On April 11, 2018, the European Commission published a proposal to amend the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive to answer Member States’ demand for tools to tackle dual quality of foodstuff....

The EU started the post-quota era with an all-time record sugar production of 22.8 million MT for MY 2017/2018, of which 21.1 million MT is for processing into sugar....

Total EU oilseeds area and production in MY 2018/19 is forecast slightly upward due to increasing acreage of all three major oilseeds (rapeseed, soybean and sunflower).

On March 12, 2018, the EU alcoholic beverages industry presented a “joint’ self-regulatory proposal on nutrition labeling and ingredients listing to the European Commission.