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The first official, survey-based estimates of U.S. farmers’ 2025 planting intentions.

Corn, wheat, and rice production and import predictions for 2025.

The 2025 Power of Meat study looks into meat and poultry consumption trends in 2024, as well as the behaviors, perceptions, and purchasing patterns of meat shoppers.

The sow and market hog inventories were down in March, but there was an increase in the number of piglets weaned per litter.

Chicken meat was the most popular, while pork consumption has stagnated in recent years. Germany's meat production increased for the first time since 2016.

For the first time, all the 27 countries of the European Union together with Iceland and Norway have collected and reported data on both sales and use of antimicrobials in animals in their countries.

Hungary has confirmed two new outbreaks of FMD and Slovakia confirms its fifth, bordering Austria and near the Czech Republic.

Decreased pork production was offset by significantly increased imports, contributing to increased consumption.

The Netherlands boosts manure exports with a new delegate for the promotion of organic fertilizer exports.

China imported more than 61 Mt of grain in 2023/24, but is to reduce purchases in 2024/25 due to economic factors and self-sufficiency policies.

Trends in antimicrobial consumption by species and animal categories in Spain in 2023 and information for combating antimicrobial resistance.

Moscow and Washington agree on measures on maritime security, agricultural trade, and energy infrastructure protection.

Mississippi prohibits the sale of food products produced from cultured animal cells.

Paraguay approves sanitary certificate for pork exports.

The restriction zone established around this second outbreak, which involves more than 3,000 dairy cattle, covers a small part of Austrian territory.

Austria extends its surveillance zone after an FMD outbreak on a Hungarian dairy cattle farm with 3,000 animals near the Austrian border.

Economic compensation will be introduced to farmers who produce pigs with tails to achieve the targets approved by the Danish Parliament.

The Member States have agreed to implement an additional restriction zone with a radius of at least 50 km around the outbreaks.

Canada is strengthening its AgriStability program in response to China's tariffs on Canadian agricultural and food products.

125 organisations call on the European Commission for a science-based food strategy that values livestock farming across the EU.

Import ban amended following outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany.

The location of the new outbreak reinforces the possibility of long-distance airborne transmission, the most likely hypothesis.

EU agriculture ministers emphasize the need for a strong CAP, fair farmer incomes, and sustainable innovation to secure the future of the agrifood sector.

Romania calls for CAP reform to allow EAFRD funding for breeding animals, aiming to boost livestock productivity, competitiveness, and food security.