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MY2017/18 cultivation for main-crop rice and corn is occurring much sooner than MY2016/17 cultivation due to favorable rainfall and sufficient reservoir levels.

Export prices further increased four to six percent, except for fragrant rice prices, which remained steady.

In April 2017 the Commission of European Affairs of the French Senate organized a hearing on endocrine disruptors (EDs).

A 2016 Borlaug Fellowship Program Alumni has developed a dietary risk assessment spreadsheet that is now used in both the pesticide registration process and the establishment of pesticide maximum....

Highlights: On May 17, newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron announced his Cabinet. French Senator Jacques Mezard from Cantal was named Minister of Agriculture.

Export prices further increased two to three percent, except for fragrant rice prices which remained steady.

In 2016 milk deliveries in the European Union (EU) increased by an estimated 0.5 percent and are expected to only slightly increase in 2017.

Export prices increased two to three percent due to several new inquiries for fragrant and white rice.

On April 27, 2017 France published a decree banning cherry imports from countries where the use of the chemical dimethoate is legal.

Export prices remain steady as the weakening Thai baht offset the price pressure caused by the upcoming rice shipments to Iran.

MY2017/18 main-crop rice and corn planting is unlikely to be delayed due to favorable rainfall and a recovery in reservoir levels.