Tag: agriculture

You Can’t Put Filters on a Cow’s Chimney

As part of the Green Deal, the EU Commission wants to expand the Industrial Emissions Directive—the main EU regulation for pollutant emissions from industrial installations—to include cattle farms.

Ukraine Committed to Wheat Export Deal

Dubbed the “Black Sea Grain Initiative,” the agreements will provide safe ocean passage out of the three key Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea—Odessa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny—and on to the rest of the world.

Farmers Fighting the Green Revolution

For the last seventy years, agricultural policy in Europe and elsewhere has been driving efficiency and increased production, much to the detriment of societal and environmental health. But not all the blame rests on the shoulders of the technocrats. They weren’t the ones who started the revolution that made Spanish farmer Artero cry.

EU Cuts Support to Sunflower Farmers

The Ministry of Agriculture called the move from Brussels “a setback,” as it comes just when the war in Ukraine has created a global need for seeds and seed oils that farmers were ready to respond to.