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The African Union Commission (AUC) recently launched a continental SPS Committee to assist member states in their efforts to protect human, animal and plant health.

The wheat production estimate for MY14/15 is revised downward from the official USDA estimate by 600,000 metric tons to 3.8 million metric tons.

In 2014, Canada remained the top destination for U.S. exports of high-value agricultural products, with a total of $17.2 billion.

South Africa’s net trade in corn is expected to decrease from 2.0 million tons to 100,000 tons in the 2014/15 MY, due to a mid-summer drought that hit the main corn producing areas.

The passage of a bio-safety bill has faced many hiccups in Nigeria, the country’s policy makers now appear to be set for the passage of the bill and subsequent executive assent.

Post forecasts that the South Africa grape crop for wine production will decrease by two percent to 1.490 million tons in 2015, from the peak production of 1.520 million tons in 2014.

The outlook for the livestock sector remains unchanged: the cattle herd will continue to shrink in 2015, due to liquidation and poor heifer retention, while the hog sector remains stable...

A family-owned food business finds winning formula to exporting to Canada and other foreign markets.

According to industry sources, Bill C-48, most commonly known as the Modernization of Canada’s Grain Industry Act, is stalled and unlikely to be passed into law before the federal elections...

Canada’s Agricultural Growth Act, formerly referred to as Bill C-18, received royal assent on February 25, 2015 and is now law.