Celia Bergin

Romania accounts for about a third of all farms in the EU and depleting water supplies are jeopardizing the country’s role in the food supply chain.

(Bloomberg) -- Spanish olive oil production is set to jump by almost half this season, easing a supply squeeze that pushed up prices following two poor harvests.

Paris wheat futures fell for a fourth day as the market seeks a competitive price to lure major buyers back from cheap Black Sea crops.

Spanish olive oil production is set to jump by almost half this season, easing a supply squeeze that pushed up prices following two poor harvests.

Russia’s wheat production is seen shrinking for a third year after a lack of rain has delayed plantings in the world’s top grower.

Europe’s farmers, faced with rotting and diseased crops still sitting in some fields, see more pain ahead as ever more rain delays winter planting.

Global food prices hit the highest level in 18-months in October, with unfavorable weather raising production concerns for many commodities and threatening to keep consumer costs higher for longer.

While the index tracks raw commodity costs rather than retail prices, the rise indicates that higher food prices may continue to hit consumers.

They piled into central London in their thousands, mostly on foot but some in tractors, with placards reading “No Farmers, No Food, No Future” and “The Final Straw” to protest the new Labour government’s decision to impose inheritance tax on farms for the first time in over three decades.

They piled into central London in their thousands, mostly on foot but some in tractors, with placards reading "No Farmers, No Food, No Future" and "The Final Straw" to protest the new Labour government's decision to impose inheritance tax on farms for the first time in over three decades.