Latest Agriculture News

It's a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers and African cocoa farmers but big brands see profits

Mar. 28, 2024 12:25 PM EDT

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year. Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa supplies and the earnings of farmers in West Africa. About three-quarters of the...

What's keeping egg prices high for Easter? It's not just inflation

Mar. 28, 2024 11:55 AM EDT

Egg prices are at near-historic highs in many parts of the world as the spring holidays approach, reflecting a market scrambled by disease, high demand and growing costs for farmers. It’s the second year in a row consumers have faced sticker shock ahead of Easter and Passover, both...

Poland and Ukraine leaders cite progress on regulating Ukrainian food imports to ease farmer anger

Mar. 28, 2024 10:50 AM EDT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prime ministers of Ukraine and Poland said they made progress Thursday toward meeting demands of Polish and western European farmers who want restrictions on cheap Ukrainian food imports that they say undermine their livelihoods, but they announced no breakthrough. ...

Norwegians facing a shortage as Easter nears are hoarding eggs from neighboring Sweden

Mar. 28, 2024 09:52 AM EDT

HELSINKI (AP) — A shortage of eggs in shops during Holy Week has led Norwegians to flock to supermarkets across the border in Sweden and hoard the traditional Easter food. Norwegian news outlet Nettavisen said Thursday that the Nordby shopping center in Sweden, located just off the...

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

Mar. 28, 2024 07:18 AM EDT

Times and Democrat. March 23, 2024. Editorial: Protecting farmland vital for S.C. Neeses farmer Ken Griffith wrote recently about development. While one might see land use as an issue in fast-growing counties such as Lexington, Beaufort, Charleston and...

'Women farmers are invisible': A West African project helps them claim their rights — and land

Mar. 27, 2024 14:27 PM EDT

ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (AP) — Mariama Sonko’s voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her lecture was punctuated by the thud of falling fruit. This quiet village in Senegal...

783 million people face chronic hunger. Yet the world wastes 19% of its food, UN says

Mar. 27, 2024 12:41 PM EDT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The world wasted an estimated 19% of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to a new United Nations report. The U.N. Environment Programme's Food Waste Index Report, published Wednesday, tracks the progress of...

Wind and sun are free, but it's harder to get renewable energy projects built these days. Here's why

Mar. 26, 2024 02:19 AM EDT

SPRAKEBUELL, Germany (AP) — The wind gusting across north German farm country brings much to the village of Sprakebuell: fog and rain from the sea, the occasional migrating stork, the faint smell of manure in the newly fertilized fields. And perhaps best of all, money — from...

UK farmers in tractors head to Parliament to protest rules they say threaten livelihoods

Mar. 26, 2024 01:53 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Farmers drove dozens of tractors in a slow-motion convoy towards Britain’s Parliament on Monday to protest post- Brexit rules and trade deals that they say are endangering livelihoods and food security. Supporters of the campaign groups Save British Farming and...

How EU deforestation laws are reordering the world of coffee

Mar. 25, 2024 22:06 PM EDT

BUON MA THUOT, Vietnam (AP) — Le Van Tam is no stranger to how the vagaries of global trade can determine the fortunes of small coffee farmers like him. He first planted coffee in a patch of land outside Buon Ma Thuot city in Vietnam's Central Highland region in 1995. For years,...