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AgribusinessNew Purdue and McKinsey figures show weaker farm balance sheets in the US and Brazil, a quarter of US farm income coming from government payments, and farmers wary of trying new technology in a tight year.
LivestockLloyd Short of Borden Farming in Robert Sobukwe Town won the 2026 Daïdoh Championship Mohair Awards, which rank South African Angora farmers by the average price of their summer kid mohair clips.
AgribusinessItaly's SICIT Group has dedicated a plant of more than $44 million in Leon, Mexico, that turns leather-industry residues into protein-based biostimulants, and plans a moringa product for US corn growers.
AgribusinessA new EU regulation on unfair trading practices in the food chain makes the existing ban easier to enforce when a buyer sits in another member state, and farmers are expected to gain most.
EnvironmentDelhi's air quality index has passed 400; a 2025 cloud-seeding trial with IIT Kanpur produced no rain because the clouds held only 15 to 20 per cent moisture, and research shows any relief from rain lasts just one to five days.
EnvironmentA new UNDP study puts the cost of tackling El Nino's impacts at $36 billion if action starts now and $73 billion if it is delayed; a 5 per cent rise in food prices could push another 37 million people in developing countries into poverty.
AgribusinessBangladesh needs 5.805 million tonnes of fertiliser this year, about 79 per cent of it imported; the World Bank says subsidies take about 80 per cent of the agriculture ministry's budget, yet only 5 per cent of farmers use fertiliser in balanced doses.
EnvironmentAt COP31 in Antalya, the least developed countries called for adaptation finance to be tripled to $120 billion a year before 2035, and Bangladesh asked for more money in the loss and damage fund, easier terms and faster disbursement.
AgribusinessThe Department of Agriculture says imports rose 42% between 2023 and 2025 to supply 61% of the country's pork and pushed farmgate prices below production costs.
EnvironmentTwo leopards were seen in an Indian tea garden across the Nagar River from Dhantala union in Baliadangi, Thakurgaon, and villagers on the Bangladesh side fear they may cross into their area.
More than 500 people fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach pain after eating at a funeral gathering in Kalpani Nayapara, Saghata, Gaibandha; 115 were admitted to the upazila health complex.
LivestockThe Stark family of S Bar K Cattle and Hay weaned on 4 November, sent three loads of steers to video-auction buyers and kept heifers for a more moderate-sized cow herd.
AgribusinessWith the harvest in, farmdoc's calculator gives wheat a 53% chance of a PLC payment, corn 29% and soybeans 14%, while ARC-County odds vary widely from county to county.
EnvironmentThe 178 major reservoirs held 63.25% of usable capacity on 12 November, almost 30% less than a year earlier, with Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu under 40% full.
EnvironmentCleanfarms' first Great Twine Round-Up in Manitoba runs to 31 May 2027, with four $3,000 prizes for local 4-H clubs or farm charities, to keep used plastic twine out of landfill.
FruitsAt a Barrydale farm day, a restoration ecologist and two soil scientists urged growers to protect soil cover, check where water really goes with a spade and know the water cost of each kilogram of fruit.
EnvironmentFamilies who lost homes, farms and livestock in the 2023 glacial lake flood remain in makeshift shelters in West Bengal, where 116 planned houses await state finance approval.
EnvironmentOn Premganj char near Jalpaiguri, migrant farmers lease shifting land for potatoes, maize and paddy, and about 100 elephants a year come to feed on the crops.
OpinionThree conservationists argue that wild medicinal plants such as Paris polyphylla are being stripped from northeast Indian forests for distant markets, and that village-level protection works better than bans on paper.
AgribusinessAgricultural and allied exports reached $4.47 billion in October while imports of five major farm categories rose 21.3% to $6.25 billion, led by vegetable oil and cotton.
AgrotechThe camera-based guidance system reads trunks, vines, trellis posts and canopy edges to keep machines centred in rows where tree cover weakens GNSS signals; it is due on sale in 2027.
AgrotechA University of Queensland robot with electromagnetic soil sensors, paired with drones, found that 36 wheat varieties differ in how much water they use, when, and from what depth.
AgrotechThe French firm's 2.2-tonne electric tracked carrier uses a standard three-point hitch and power take-off, works a full day on its own and won an award at EIMA in Bologna.
VegetablesPhytoform's edited potato line, which showed less bruising than unedited plants, can go into the ground in England from 19 November under the Precision Breeding Act.
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VideoRobert and Mary Troy, the fifth generation milking at Newtownshandrum, won the 2026 NDC and Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards with 425 cows, an SCC of 89,000 cells/ml and a herd in the national top 1% for breeding.
VideoIn the latest AgriView episode, agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo asks whether the enlarged BRICS bloc is opening real markets for South African produce, or mostly producing talk.
VideoAt Bindhara in Panchbibi, Joypurhat, small dark-skinned Black Baby watermelons hang from bamboo trellises. The 60-day crop needs 50 grams of seed a bigha, yields 1,200 to 1,500 fruits or 4 to 4.5 tonnes, and at Tk 30 a kilo earns far more than other field crops.
In pictures
GalleryPixels of thread on jute sacking: a Pabna maker has trained over 100 women1 photos
GalleryOff-season trellis watermelons at Chattogram's Kadamtali fruit market, in pictures1 photos
GalleryVegetable seedlings on floating beds: the 150-year-old dhap farming, in pictures1 photos
GalleryNetting farmed fish from the ponds of Kahalu, Bogura, in pictures1 photos
GalleryBangladesh on 11 November: gerberas, Kaptai fishers and paddy drying in the field1 photos
GalleryRuddy shelducks, gulls and red-crested pochards flock to Padma chars in Rajshahi1 photos
GalleryFrom trawler to boat to cold store: unloading fish at Chattogram's Karnaphuli ghatSection
EnvironmentThree adult tigers reached Gazipur Safari Park at Sreepur early on Friday in an animal exchange with Chattogram Zoo, which is receiving six zebras; the park now has 10 tigers.
EnvironmentAfter Cyclone Sidr, a World Bank-funded project built about 62 km of embankment around polder 35/1 at Sharankhola, but cracks and slips appeared within a year, and the Baleswar's erosion has now reached its foot.
