World Agrinews

The European Commission today officially announced the winner of the EU organic logo competition. Over the past two months, some 130,000 people have voted online to choose the new organic symbol from three finalists. The winning design is by Dusan Milenkovic, a student from Germany, who gained 63% of the overall vote for his “Euro-leaf” logo. From 1st July 2010, the organic logo of the EU will be obligatory on all pre-packaged organic products that have been produced in any of the EU Member States and meet the necessary standards. It will be optional for imported products.

Wheat prices fell in Chicago, capping the fourth straight weekly decline, as buyers opted for supplies that are cheaper than grain from the U.S., the world’s largest exporter.

In a bid to protect farmers against increasing market volatility, EU farm leaders emphasised at a hearing on the long-term future of the EU dairy sector the need to further develop market risk management tools, including futures markets, as well as to maintain EU market management measures as a cornerstone of EU dairy policy, especially as the EU sells 9% of production on the world market.

The second victim was a young Japanese woman in her early twenties. On a business trip to the U.S., she ordered tuna sashimi for lunch. It seemed fishy to her—and she was dead right.

The third was a South African fisherman we'll call "Nate." He never ate a thing, but as he plied the waters of the new fishery he'd recently started working, elsewhere poachers harvested protected spiny lobster and exported them with false documents—further damaging recovering fishing grounds Nate hoped to one day fish again.

Seafood identity theft?