Investments include modern greenhouses, laboratories, a seed processing area and digital solutions to enhance efficiencies in breeding processes
- The International Federation for Produce Standards announces a new website, promising a more functional PLU database.
- Under pressure from farmers in multiple countries, Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Commission, has called for a recalibration of environmental policies.
- Arkansas is the first state to ban foreign-owned farmland.
- More U.S. fresh potatoes were southbound to Mexico than northbound to Canada, according to recent U.S. trade data for 2023.