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World Soybean Research Conference for the first time in Europe in June
All around soya: Science meets business in Vienna Vienna. For one week from 18 to 23 June, Vienna will be the centre of science, economy and politics around global soya-related issues. Hundreds of scientists, feed and food producers, processors and soya experts from...
World Pulses Day on 10 February: Donau Soja demands a European Protein Transition
Legume Hub: European knowledge platform on legumes not only for farmers Vienna/Berlin/Bern – For the coming World Pulses Day on Friday, 10 February, the organisation Donau Soja reminds of the urgently needed Protein Transition in Europe. Currently, pulses such as...
Donau Soja: Dagmar Gollan takes over Executive Director of the association
Vienna - The international organisation Donau Soja with its headquarters in Vienna has appointed an Executive Director with immediate effect. This was decided by the board on the proposal of President Matthias Krön, as the association and the number of its employees...
Donau Soja celebrated 10-year anniversary with two-days festive conference in Vienna
European protein transition changes production and use of proteins Vienna - Donau Soja connects Europe bean by bean and has done so since 2012. "We wanted to establish an association of progressive companies, with the involvement of civil society, with the goal of a...
Egg producers in Austria avoid one million tonnes of CO2 since switching to feeding with Donau Soja
Egg production in Austria is European champion in climate and environmental protection Vienna. Austria's laying hen farmers have avoided one million tonnes of the harmful greenhouse gas CO2 since switching to feeding with Donau Soja in 2013 to date. This is more than...
Ukraine: Exports of agricultural goods up another 25% in June to 2.17 million tons
Kyiv – According to the latest data from the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine, in June 2022 Ukraine exported 2.17 million tons of grains, legumes, oilseeds and by-products, which is 470,000 tons or 25% more than in the previous month.
Ukraine: Sowing season ends with 1.25 million hectares
According to official information from the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture, the sowing of soya in Ukraine is almost finished. Taras Vysotskiy, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, announced that Ukraine has planted 1.25 million hectares of soya this year.
2022 record year for non-GM soya in Europe
Europe is aiming for a record year in soya: This year’s total soya area is predicted to grow to 4.5 million ha in 2022, which makes +4.3 % compared to 2021. Soya area in the EU-27 is predicted to expand by 12 % to a record 1.09 million ha.
German retail and Ukrainian farmers secure European non-GM market of the future
Increasing volumes of sustainable soya in Ukraine despite war.
The war against Ukraine has made the agricultural markets nervous. While the export situation for commodities following the Russian blockade of Black Sea ports looks rather bad, the situation for soya is completely different.
Donau Soja provides life cycle assessment datasets for its soybeans
The life cycle assessment (LCA) datasets of Donau Soja and Europe Soya-certified soybeans are now publicly available as a so-called “branded dataset” via Blonk Consultants’ Agri-footprint portal.
