Category: Agriculture
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Longer contracts are becoming supply-chain infrastructure. Lidl GB has committed £500m to British berry sourcing over five years, giving growers more certainty as cost, labour, and climate pressure persist.
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Packaged former foodstuffs are moving further into feed systems. Trotec’s LIFE F3 project has added capacity, expanded recycling routes, and opened a replication path in Poland and Spain.
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Fresh produce packing needs speed without product damage. ULMA Packaging UK will showcase VFFS technology with Venturi air-assisted handling for leafy salad and delicate produce applications.
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Garden Biopharmaceutical has appointed Denkavit Ingredients as exclusive distributor for feed additive vitamins across Europe, strengthening routes to market for animal nutrition products used in livestock production.
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VIV Europe 2026 closed its 25th edition in Utrecht with nearly 15,000 professional visitors, 461 exhibitors, and a new biannual cycle for the feed-to-food sector.
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Newcastle disease outbreaks across continental Europe are renewing biosecurity pressure on poultry producers and processors, with disease risk adding complexity to protein supply planning.
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Mondelēz International’s R&D agenda is bringing together regenerative agriculture, cocoa resilience, packaging materials, start-up collaboration, and process efficiency as manufacturers face tighter supply, cost, and sustainability pressures.
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The EU agri-food trade surplus reached €4.4bn in February. Lower import values improved the monthly balance, while movement in cocoa, cereals, oilseeds, pigmeat, fruit, nuts, and oils continues to shape cost exposure for processors.
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UNECE has developed guidance to reduce food loss across fresh and dried produce supply chains. The work links commercial quality standards with grading, handling, storage, and market routes that keep more product in use.
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RespectFarms has installed a cultivated meat production unit on a working dairy farm in Zuid-Holland. The project tests a decentralised model that places cell-culture production inside existing agricultural infrastructure.