EkoNiva, the largest Russian producer of raw milk, plans to completely reorient all its beef farms to the production of organic beef by mid-2021. The company wants to get its organic production certified internationally, in particular by the EU. To formalize all the processes, EkoNiva established three new legal entities which are 100% owned by...

BRF, a Brazil-based and the world’s leading meat producer, has been lately involved in a food safety scandal. Brazil’s federal prosecutors charged the company’s 11 former employees including two former vice-presidents of falsifying the documents and labels between 2012 and 2018 and use of banned ingredients for production of livestock feedstuff as...

Steppe agroholding, a Russia-based agricultural subsidiary of AFK Sistema Corporation, raised its revenue 26.3% to $ 162 million in Q3 2019, as compared to Q3 2018. In January – September 2019, revenue grew 47% and reached $ 333 million, a record high for the whole period of the company’s operations. The key reason for the revenue growth was...

Grain Alliance, a Ukraine-based agroholding operating 57,000 hectares of the country's farmland, reports to have been able to store 47,000 tonnes of grains from own production this season at its subsisdiary elevator Nizhynskyi. From now on, the elevator is also available for storage of grains delivered by other agricultural producers. The one-time...