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The European Commission is set to exclude imports of leather from its anti-deforestation law, after a campaign by industry groups which argued that production does not incentivise the cattle farming that fuels forest destruction buff.ly/3mo6kqV

Fonterra has made interim changes to the leadership of its Global Ingredients business as Richard Allen prepares to step into the CEO role buff.ly/PzafQez

Ongoing uncertainty around screwworm underscores how animal health threats can quickly alter marketing decisions, trade flows and price direction buff.ly/IMyphYa

Brazilian labour prosecutors have filed lawsuits against five firms over labour abuses in their supply chains, with grain trader Cargill and meatpacker JBS among those targeted buff.ly/mbwPNHL

The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group earlier this year, a rare intervention by the US Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was linked to their gender buff.ly/Ut9SZkb

Walmart has opened its third milk processing facility in the United States with a more than $350 million investment, adding to a decade-long effort to bolster its perishables supply chain buff.ly/vXlKU9n

Cargill will invest $150 million to upgrade its French sunflower seed processing plant in Saint-Nazaire as it aims to meet a rise in demand for high-protein meal for animal feed buff.ly/f4j1DiT

Brazil's J&F SA, owned by the Batista family, steps into the international debt market with close to $1 billion in bonds through two deals buff.ly/D2YVgvC

European farming, food and retail associations have called for the EU agri-food chain to be formally recognised as critical infrastructure, urging policymakers to grant operators priority access to energy and key inputs at affordable and competitive rates buff.ly/Awcq4Zd

The Netherlands flagged four Argentine and two Brazilian soybean meal shipments containing banned genetically modified organisms, leading to at least three withdrawals and prompting Argentina to question Dutch testing methods buff.ly/O5DhCgg

EuroTier 2026, a major international trade fair for livestock production, will take place alongside EnergyDecentral from 10 to 13 November 2026 in Hanover, Germany. The ticket shop is now open buff.ly/VPwMwuu

Researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln have developed a vaccine approach that shows promise in protecting against highly pathogenic bird flu, demonstrating strong efficacy in both mice and cattle #AvianInfluenza buff.ly/sIzoWlG

Forecasts for the strongest El Nino in a decade promise hotter, drier weather across Asia in the second half of 2026, hitting crops and food supplies while farmers grapple with fertiliser shortages and costly fuel caused by the Iran war buff.ly/nmbkUUI

A new federal agreement aims to cut red tape, speed up grazing permits and give ranchers more certainty on public lands - here’s what it means for your operation buff.ly/Xt7aLCc

Poland will file a complaint to the European Union's top court about the bloc's free trade agreement with South America, as Warsaw tries to stop a deal it says will harm farmers buff.ly/Ezta5VK

Veterinarian Trey Gellert outlines how birth, weaning and transport shape lifetime performance and how producers can reduce risk #BeefOnDairy buff.ly/FLg3Kwb

FMD serotype SAT1 detection across distant provinces raises containment concerns, triggers nationwide vaccine push buff.ly/9n0nQ0D

Aaron Smith, a fifth-generation pea and lentil farmer in northern Idaho, says the dizzying rise of GLP-1 medications and a social media-fuelled protein craze may be his farm’s only path to profit this year buff.ly/zEMcYLP

Brazil's government expects the country's exports to increase 13% by 2038 through the full enforcement of the free trade deal between the South American bloc Mercosur and the European Union buff.ly/R8AOowt

Uzbekistan has listed measures amounting to the partial quarantine of cattle, linking them to foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks in 48 countries in 2025-26 buff.ly/oaOyEzX