24 iul 2014

The price of farmland put for up sale by owners of small plots of up to 30 hectares has reached EUR4,000/hectare on average, according to a ZF analysis based on 50 ‘for sale’ ads. more

23 iul 2014

The wheat price fell to less than EUR150/ton in mid-July, the lowest price for this time of the year in four years due to the bumper crops in Romania and in the EU countries. more

8 iul 2014

The 1 million ton rapeseed harvest, the highest in Romania’s history, will generate EUR300 million revenue in the next few months when farmers sell it to processors and traders. more

3 iul 2014

French-held Louis Dreyfus group, one of the four largest grain traders in the world, has returned to agricultural trade in Romania after winning a $15.7 million auction to supply 60,000 tons of more

26 iun 2014

Half of Romania’s wheat harvest, which could overpass 7.6 million tons, might reach animal farms as the heavy rains have favored pest attacks. more

25 iun 2014

Agribusiness group Agricover has entered the market of vegetable procurement from seven basins including Vidra, Izbiceni, Dracea or Lunguletu, and targets revenue of EUR12 million from the more

23 iun 2014

Farmers will harvest 750,000 tons of rapeseed in a few weeks, 9.6% more than in 2013 and the highest amount in four years, but the yield will be 2.15 tons per hectare, down 5% on last season. more

19 iun 2014

Italian-held Maschio Gaspardo, the largest producer of farm machinery in Romania, is to get state aid worth EUR4.7 million, representing 49% of the value of investments at its plant of Chisineu-Cris, more

17 iun 2014

Romania’s wheat exporters delivered 4.7 million tons this season (ended on June 30), 87% of which outside the European Union. more

16 iun 2014

Traders Cargill and Nidera have signed contracts to export 120,000 tons of Romanian wheat to Egypt even before the local farmers got a chance to harvest it, based on expectations of a bumper crop of more

12 iun 2014

Adrian Porumboiu, the owner of Racova, one of the largest farming groups of Romania, is in advanced talks to sell his vegetable oil plant in Vaslui County (NE Romania). more

9 iun 2014

Alfred Toepfer (US), Cargill (US), Ameropa (Switzerland), Glencore (Switzerland), CHS (US), Bunge (US), Nidera (China) and three more companies are calling the shots on the Romanian grain trading more

5 iun 2014

Romanian farmers will harvest 8.3 million tons of wheat in less than one month, which is the highest production in the last 27 years, according to the available data, and also 12% higher than in more

5 iun 2014

Unicarm, owned by Romanian businessman Vasile Lucut, is set to open between 10 and 15 proximity stores and supermarkets this year and go beyond the threshold of 100 retail units almost ten years after more

3 iun 2014

Germany’s Agrarius purchased a 700-ha farm several km west of Timisoara, expanding its Romanian portfolio by 20%, to 4,200 hectares. more

2 iun 2014

Martin Schuldt, the head of Cargill, left Romania at the end of last week after an almost 10-year term at the helm of Romania’s biggest agribusiness group. more

23 mai 2014

German-held Almos group, which farms 7,000 hectares of land in Neamt County (NE Romania), has hedged against wheat price risk by selling 50% of its harvest via futures contracts on the Euronext Paris more

21 mai 2014

Expur, a major player on Romania’s vegetal oil market, will complete, in autumn, the relocation of industrial equipment taken over from Cargill in early 2013 in the wake of the deal by which it also more

20 mai 2014

Marex and Vegetal Trading companies, controlled by entrepreneurs in Braila, entered insolvency proceedings at their own request amid a cash crunch. The companies’ biggest creditors include BCR, more

16 mai 2014

The new-crop wheat to be harvested in mid-July will go on sale starting from an upper threshold of 850 lei (EUR192) per ton. The summer price will then go down as a result of abundant harvests in the more

14 mai 2014

Farmers have slashed areas cultivated with corn and switched to rapeseed amid the smaller weather risks and higher financial yields associated with oleaginous seed businesses, says Cosmin Chioreanu, more

6 mai 2014

The largest 20 Romanian cattle owners have between them 16,000 head and see EUR115 million revenue a year together, according to a ZF analysis based on data from Agency for Payments and Intervention more

25 apr 2014

Agribusiness company Biochem, controlled by Chimisliu family, acquired a 44,000-ton grain storage capacity in Dragalina, Calarasi county, from Piraeus Bank. The capacity had come to be owned by the more

22 apr 2014

U.S. investment fund Anholt Investment is expanding into the Romanian agricultural sector by buying the Agraria Nord and Arland farms in Botosani County (northern Romania), which jointly hold 6,000 more

16 apr 2014

Agriculture has reached its extensive growth ceiling and will direct the EUR8 billion in EU funds made available to it in 2014-2020 to intensive production and processing systems in the next seven more