«German beer is POISON!» You can think so, if you read a research report of German Institute for Environmental Studies (www.umweltinstitut.org), delivered a bombshell two days ago. German Institute located in Munich and its Bavarian beer experts, within a 500th jubilee year of the Beer purity law, discovered glyphosate – a general effect herbicide, […]

According to the data of the Federal Service of State Statistics, in January 2016 beer production in Russia (with alcohol content from 0,5 to 8,6%) was 37.406,2 dL. that is equivalent to 99,4% for the same period last year. More detailed statistics of beer production in January 2016 is available by reference.

In February 17, 2016 the Minister of Agriculture of the RF Alexander Tkachev held the meeting of the collegium of the Ministry of Agriculture. Among participants were representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Heads of the relevant committees of the Federal Assembly Gennady Gorbunov and Nikolay Pankov, leaders of the departments and representatives of regional […]

The President of Barley, Malt, Hops and Beer Union Alexander Mordovin, the Executive Director of Beer and Beverage Market Association Kamal Lebedev, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Russian Brewers’ Union Vyacheslav Mamontov took part in the analytical program of RBK-TV “ Beer market: local producers will win”, a TV presenter Pavel Demidovich. […]

According to industrial malting and brewing trials carried out in Germany, the Variety Committee of Malting Barley Producers’ Union recommended malting barley variety “Ventina” for malt and brewing productions (selection company SaatzuchtJosef Breun GmbH& Co.KG). In December 2015 the Federal Variety Agency accepted following malting barley varieties «Cervinia» and «Crossway» for the first time. Among […]

Annual All-Russia Agricultural Conference, devoted to the results of the crop industry and implementation of tasks under the Government Program 2016, including carrying out of seasonal filedworks, took place at the territory of VDNKh (pavilion No 75) in January 27, 2016. Over 800 participants took part in the Conference. Among them were representatives of the […]

We’d like to inform you that a company “Saaten-Union” became a member of our Union. SAATEN-UNION: Breeding for the future! http://www.saaten-union.ru/ We live in a time of shortage of resources, changes in climate, the necessity of feeding a continuously growing world population and the increasing cultivation of renewable resources. One result of this current situation […]