Polish farmers have suspended their blockade at the Medyka-Shehyni border crossing for the Christmas period, Ukraine’s State Border Service announced on Dec. 24. Polish Agriculture Minister Czeslaw Siekierski and Deputy Agriculture Minister Michal Kolodziejczak met the farmers for talks on Dec. 23. The Polish Agriculture Ministry then announced that the farmers had agreed to suspend […]
Polish farmers have agreed to suspend their blockade of one of the currently blocked Ukraine-Poland border checkpoints through Christmas and New Years, Roman Kondrów, head of the Polish farmer association Podkarpackie Deceived Village, said on Dec. 23, according to Polish news outlet RMF FM. The protests will be suspended from 8:00 a.m. on Dec. 24, […]
Big Purchase Between October and mid-December 2023, China purchased a massive amount of wheat, totaling 60 million bushels. This included a record-breaking weekly total of 55 million bushels. This unexpected development occurred when U.S. wheat prices had recently hit multi-year lows. Despite initial indications of a record-low year for U.S. wheat exports in 2023/24, China’s […]
Moldovan farmers are calling on their government to implement restriction mechanisms on grain and oil imports from Ukraine, Moldovan outlet NewsMaker reported on Dec. 19. “In the past two months, we have even seen a slow increase in the prices of wheat and corn,” the Farmers’ Power Association’s said Read also: Ukrzaliznytsia debuts ‘first of […]
This fall and winter, dozens of residents are opting to pick up weekly boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables at local businesses and workplaces rather than buying similar produce from supermarkets. They are each members of regional farm box programs operated by the Southwest Washington Food Hub, a farmer-owned cooperative that launched in 2020. The […]
At least 14 people were killed in a fight between members of a drug gang and local villagers last week after residents fought back against extortion demands, according to the Mexican authorities. Ten of the people killed in Mexico state were members of the La Familia Michoacana cartel, and the rest were local farmers, Mexican […]