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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has announced the Stand-Up Program, up to $50 million to help states start or expand state meat and poultry inspection in partnership with FSIS, so that more small processors are inspected and ranchers have somewhere to process close to home; cattle producers wel
Salk Institute scientists, backed by an $18 million Bezos Earth Fund grant, are testing gene-edited soybeans with roots that grow straight down at sites in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa, hoping they can reach water in droughts and store an extra tonne of carbon dioxide per hectare a year.
Pukepoto Farm Trust near Taumarunui, farming 1,000 effective hectares for more than a thousand Ngāti Maniapoto shareholders, credits planning, benchmarking and managing expectations for an unbroken run of profits, and has joined Beef + Lamb's Hub Farm Programme to share what it has learned.
Northland Regional Council's August report says El Niño strengthened considerably last month and could rival 1997-98; below-average rainfall is now the most likely outcome for September to November even though August delivered 172mm, 108% of normal, and left most soils near field capacity.
LivestockAt a FIAB-USSEC seminar in Dhaka, the fisheries and livestock secretary and the livestock DG said the feed industry must move from conventional formulation to science-based nutrition to cut costs and keep protein within reach.
About 2,000 protesters outside the Bucharest government headquarters on 15 September threw rocks and barriers at riot police, who answered with tear gas; 26 were detained and 24 needed treatment. The EU has extended its ban on live sheep exports to 31 December 2026 after PPR and sheep-and-goat-pox o
Australia produces only about 5% of the world's eucalyptus oil, so its two big blue mallee producers, GR Davis and FGB Natural Products, have invested more than $6 million and $10 million in new distilleries and planted millions of bred trees yielding close to 7% oil against the wild average of unde
The IMD says the southwest monsoon began withdrawing from west Rajasthan on Saturday, two days late, with rainfall from 1 June to 19 September 14.9% below the long-period average, El Niño still strengthening, and kharif acreage about 1.45% below last year.
AgribusinessIreland's young farmers' organisation has welcomed Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen's emphasis on productive farming at the National Ploughing Championships and urged him not to drop the ball on an active-farmer definition that excludes those who merely own or manage land.
News reportHe arrived as a JICA volunteer in 1985 and began with fish-farming extension at BARD in Cumilla; after retiring as secretary general of Shapla Neer he founded Share The Planet Association, which now runs 14 climate-resilient farming initiatives across nine haor and south-western districts.
CropsIn Ballaverkhas union the two-month-old Aman crop has gone without a single top-dressing; dealers have no urea and retailers sell at a premium — farmers allege a syndicate, the extension officer says the allocation fell short of the area planted.
With 19 of every 20 litres of Irish milk leaving the island, Dairy Industry Ireland director Conor Mulvihill says the country pays the world price and must think of itself as a nutrition industry, while a survey shows one in three farmers plans to quit within five years.
FruitsAdvised by the agriculture office, Rony Mitra and partners planted BARI-3 and Vietnamese malta on one acre of abandoned coal heaps in Netrokona in 2021; about Tk 10 lakh invested, Tk 3.5 lakh of fruit sold last year and double expected now, with wholesalers paying Tk 80-100 a kilogram at the orchard
LivestockOn a surprise visit, Fisheries and Livestock State Minister Sultan Salauddin Tuku told the Central Poultry Farm to produce more day-old chicks, repair unusable sheds and fix its staffing gap.
FruitsBumper crops of Thai and Kazi guava in Raiganj, Kazipur, Belkuchi, Ullapara and Sadar upazilas and on the Jamuna chars; a five-year orchard fruits six months after planting, says DAE deputy director A K M Manzure Maola.
FruitsSirajnagar Tea Estate in Moulvibazar put Tk 12 lakh into the orchard in 2024; Thai Red, Jumbo Red and White Pink varieties fruit 25-26 days after flowering, no pesticide is used, and tea workers earn extra wages and take fruit home free, say manager Shamim Islam and upazila agriculture officer Md Ja
FisheriesOfficial figures show Itna's open-water catch rising from 9,014 tonnes in 2022-23 to 14,536 tonnes in 2025-26, but fishers in Kishoreganj say prawn, kajoli, rui, batashi, bacha, rita and ayre are down to less than a quarter of past catches, blaming banned nets, submersible embankments, silting and p
Breeding lines that pyramid the qDTY2.1, qDTY3.1, qDTY1.1 and qDTY2.2 drought-tolerance QTLs into DRR Dhan 50 out-yielded the parent by 36 to 82% under drought in a study by Malla Reddy University, ICAR-IIRR and partners, using marker-assisted conventional crossing rather than gene editing.
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Dead fish have been floating in several enclosures at Shahadatnagar in Chattogram's Anwara since Friday afternoon; farmers say chemical-laden waste water from the Karnaphuli urea plant entered through canals, the company could not be reached and no written complaint has yet been filed.
The ninth CTIC/SARE/ASTA survey, released 1 September at the Farm Progress Show from 657 farmers in 46 states, finds average cover-crop acreage of 397.9, a 3.5 bu/ac corn and 1.4 bu/ac soybean yield gain after covers, one in three users grazing them, 16.3% using drones, and 81.6% of farmers paid an
EnvironmentThe private-sector-backed programme, running since 1980, grows fruit, timber and medicinal seedlings in 19 nurseries, follows a 70:30 species mix that favours native and medicinal trees, and has set up 119 medicinal plant gardens.
EnvironmentA mobile court demolished the two-storey site office of 'Dhaka Western Valley' in Bangram, seized its electricity meter and broke up signboards and dredger pipes over unapproved plot sales on land zoned as agricultural.
The first phase of the BASF–IRRI collaboration launched in 2024 showed that alternate wetting and drying, enabled through direct-seeded rice, cuts methane and water use without losing yield; the next phase looks at soil carbon and nitrogen and at biochar, with Philippine trials meant to inform China
