Russia terminated the Black Sea Grain initiative, threatening the food security of many in the world We will continue working to bring grain and other agri products from Ukraine to the world, through our Solidarity Lanes Have a look at what the Solidarity Lanes have achieved⤵️

If no vessels can use the Black Sea, Ukraine still has viable overland grain export routes; Russia does not.

A dilemma for the eco-activist brigade? Israeli start-up uses biotech to help tackle the global problem of plastic waste by developing durable yet biodegradable drinking straws from a new strain of wheat. Added value for the farmer too! nocamels.com/2023/07/specia…

Check out this new article by Christina van Midden on the impact of #AnaerobicDigestate on soil biota. Surface dwelling critters 🪱 suffer the most and the solid fraction delivers the most benefits. Free access here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hRDZ3JGmRIr…

Not news to us here at CLEAR but to many out there (it seems). I would change the number in the title to 100 and take out the “nearly”. There is no other beverage that is more packed with essential nutrients like real milk.

Have your say on the Dept. of Env Climate survey here - research3.ipsosinteractive.com/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.… heavy emphasis on plant-based diets and getting rid of your pets? I guess that most people don't consider that those two things go hand in hand......

Biggest Things to Watch This Week: Weather 🌧️ ☀️ For soybeans this will be the biggest thing. Mother Nature will decide if we go to $15 or right back down to $12. All week the forecasts were super hot, but then Thursday and Friday we saw the forecasts start to add some cooler

Thank you to the thousands of people who attended Drinagh Centenary Family Day over the weekend. #drinagh #drinagh100 #celebration #CorkToday #cork #carbery

More than one way to milk cows!

Common European trade policy: does it exist? Even if the EU does not extend the restrictive measures for Ukrainian #grain import to Poland after September 15, the country will close the border and some of the frontline countries will do the same - Minister of Agriculture of

Good to meet Gareth Connolly & Mike Shields from Connolly's RED MILLS who feature as one of the case studies in the Horse Sport Ireland Environmental Sustainability report launched Dublin Horse Show The RDS having created a 12,000m2 wetlands habitat near their Kilkenny feed factory

Scientists at The Roslin Institute pinpoint a gene which could help develop gene edited pigs resistant to the deadly African Swine Fever virus, for which no effective vaccine or treatment is available. Pig gene critical for African Swine Fever infection  ed.ac.uk/roslin/news-ev…

"A ‘quantum shift’ by the Food Standards Agency in its planned approach to regulating gene edited food and feed products puts England on course to adopt one of the most progressive and enabling regulatory systems in the world." scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/robinwood2

The best buyer of ag commodities in the world today are govts through subsidies paid to biodiesel. Real demand is the worst it has been in many years. Govt money is the only things that prevents ag futures from falling further. The money printer supports your futures not demand.

Went to British Sugar’s Wissington factory today for a media briefing. Wouldn’t say we learned a huge amount more unfortunately, although not very surprisingly either. Here are some brief(?!) “highlights”: 🧵 👇🏻

OUT NOW: EU Compound Feed Production Estimates for 2023 and Market Outlook 2024 📊 Read more here 👉 lnkd.in/d8vjnjVT Check the graphics below 👇🌱 🐄

And the award for the worst grain trade statistics goes to🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 the European Commission Your weekly #wheat and #corn import and export statistics are delayed, inaccurate and misleading leading to financial losses for farmers and traders due to this inaccurate data. If

Russia has introduced a temporary restriction on the export of durum wheat to countries outside the Eurasian Economic Union. The temporary restriction will come into force once the Government order is published, and will remain in place until May 31, 2024.

#wheat has followed the typical boom-bust cycle I take no pleasure that we are in the despair phase but her we are. More at fryersreports.com

We had good fun in Latvia this week with BASF talking about #wheat markets. We rolled the dice to see if grains prices are going up or down from here. Against the odds the roll of the dice 🎲 said we are going up😁