Agricultural Change History
What official registers have changed — and the difference between when it happened and when we noticed.
A change has two dates and they are almost never the same. The register states when a decision took effect; AgricultureID knows when it read the register. An EU approval that ended in 2021 was read into this corpus in 2026, and reporting the second as the first would say the substance was approved for five years after it was not.
So the two are counted separately on this page and labelled separately everywhere else. Where a source publishes no date at all, no date is shown — not a substitute.
- Recorded changes
- 20,999
- With an official date
- 19,323
- Date not published
- 1,676
- Jurisdictions
- 23
What kind of thing changed
| Entity | Changes | With an official date | Where it is shown |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input authorisations | 20,947 | 19,323 | on the register listings |
| Variety registrations | 50 | 0 | on each cultivar page |
| Agricultural authorities | 2 | 0 | on each authority page |
When the registers say it happened
Only the 19,323 changes whose source publishes an effective date appear here, by the year the source states. The other 1,676 are real changes with no published date, and they are not placed on this timeline at all.
- 2026144
- 2025347
- 2024547
- 2023336
- 2022292
- 2021472
- 2020336
- 2019472
- 2018440
- 2017329
- 2016468
- 2015607
Where they were recorded
This is a map of which registers AgricultureID reads, not of where agriculture changes. France and Canada dominate because their registers publish their whole history, including every authorisation that has ended; a register that publishes only what is current contributes nothing here however much it changes.
| Jurisdiction | Recorded changes |
|---|---|
| France | 12,451 |
| Canada | 7,522 |
| European Union | 979 |
| Slovakia | 6 |
| Hungary | 4 |
| Portugal | 4 |
| Austria | 3 |
| Switzerland | 3 |
| Denmark | 3 |
| Spain | 3 |
| Italy | 3 |
| Germany | 3 |
Authorities that were renamed
Two of eighty authorities record a former name in their own verification notes. The other seventy-eight do not, and that is not evidence they have always been called what they are called now — an alias, an abbreviation or a legacy domain is not a former name, and building a chronology out of one would invent renames wholesale.
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) → Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA)
Ontario · observed 2026-08-20 · the date the rename took effect is not established
The ministry’s own page was loaded on 2026-08-20 under the title Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness, and the OMAFRA URLs no longer resolve. A 404 alone would not have established this: a government URL that stops resolving usually means a machinery-of-government rename rather than an abolished body, and it was the current title that settled which.
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) → Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS)
Nigeria · observed 2026-08-19 · the date the rename took effect is not established
The ministry’s site was loaded on 2026-08-19 under the title Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, while continuing to serve from the fmard.gov.ng domain retained from its former name. The domain was verified as serving the current ministry, so the older name is a former title rather than a separate body.