Themes for 2025: Grains, pesticides, and macroeconomic agreements

In the last broadcast of the year, we continue with the theme of the main events that defined 2025 and are giving direction for 2026. The carryover from year to year is inevitable, as (specifically for Europe) many topics were raised, but their resolution remains in the future. Such topics are fertilizers, pesticides, and macroeconomic agreements, which unfortunately, in 2025, showed that the vision for European agriculture is completely unclear and devoid of specifics. Leading the charge, agricultural producers and professional organizations across the EU are calling for a postponement of the implementation of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) for fertilizers until the technical framework is fully finalized and clear compensatory measures are introduced to avoid shifting the costs to agricultural producers and the loss of competitiveness of EU agriculture. Statistics indicate that since 2020, European farmers have faced an explosion in production costs, which has led ...