Agriculture and Food

British negotiators are sitting down for a week of intensive talks with their EU counterparts ahead of a looming summit.

A deadly wave of avian influenza, industry-led policy and deepening ethical and biological risks are exposing flaws in the world’s most efficient meat machine.

Tribunal rules U.K. ban on catching snakey fish is based on good science.

High Commissioner Ralph Goodale also said the 245 percent tariffs U.K. cheesemakers face in Canada is due to a “Brexit screw up.”

EU executive is planning a two-track approach of incentives and retaliatory measures to convince the White House to strike a deal.

The draft U.K.-EU agreement is one of several being drawn up ahead of a May 19 summit.

“Before aiming for a free trade deal with the U.S., our first demand is that they withdraw their tariffs,” says French official.

The transatlantic trade war is increasing pressure on France to back a trade deal with South America’s Mercosur bloc, but Paris isn’t ready to give in just yet.

Dutch government buys time for farmers but tests the limits of domestic courts and EU environmental law.

With the United States throwing up the highest trade barriers in a century, Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission is on a mission to do trade deals with everyone else. 

From Austria to Spain, not a single wine tested came back clean, exposing the reach of ultra-persistent chemicals in Europe’s food chain.

Lombard said he hoped the two sides could avert a trade war with “a win-win” solution.

U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is meeting her counterpart Scott Bessent in Washington this week.

Brussels is chockablock with people trying to influence new rules on everything from Big Tech to pesticide use. Here’s where they’ve put most of their efforts.

Even the EU’s most protectionist countries are realizing that they need new friends to trade with as their oldest ally goes rogue.

Hungary and Slovakia are battling outbreaks of the highly contagious livestock disease.

Stretched resources and patchy communication leave experts warning a ban on personal meat and cheese imports could fall well short of its aims.

Prices are still rising in Europe — but not as fast as in recent years, and nothing like in the U.S.

The two countries have culled more than 10,000 animals to contain the highly contagious disease.

EU leaders hope the Italian PM can convey their trade concerns to the U.S. president when she visits Washington.

The government’s recommendations left one participant in the campaign “perplexed” and “uncomfortable.”

Earthworms may be the cause of PFAS entering the eggs, according to national public health institute.

Central and Eastern European countries are missing April showers, creating possible trouble for supply chains and farmers.

The two sides are preparing to sign a defense pact in London next month — but wider Brexit negotiations will take longer to wrap up.