The country is currently on lockdown. Food and supermarket (including online) sales have soared in the country (including rice, pasta, animal preserves, tomato products). For crops and farming, labour shortages are a concern and could result in lower production volumes. However logistically, the agriculture sector hasn’t been affected for the time being.

At the recent Animal Health Investment Europe conference in London, Animal Pharm editor Joseph Harvey spoke to Elanco's Aaron Schacht about his take on innovation. He divulged Elanco's R&D plans and talked about its strategy for securing external partners.   

An overview of the impact of foot-and-mouth disease around the world (especially in Africa) and what vaccines are out there to prevent it (and their drawbacks). 

Ghana and Ivory Coast’s proposal for adding a Living Income Differential (LID) premium to sales of cocoa beans looks set to be approved and become law by early next year. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the CEO of Ghana’s Cocoa Board, told us recently that the two countries are expected to finalize their approach by the end of December with passage through the respective parliaments into law likely in early 2020.

Outbreaks of African Swine Fever (ASF) have been so severe and widespread that the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently predicted that global meat production will register a year-on-year decline for the first time this century in 2019.

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• Stability in US granular urea NOLA barge prices
• Expectations on the India tender closing on 14 October
• China and the role of Chinese exports in Q4
• Brazilian imports expectations.