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AgribusinessA CABI-led review for CGIAR's impact panel traced two decades of crop, livestock, digital and policy innovations in Kenya, and a Nairobi workshop heard why so few reach farmers at scale.
CropsKenya's new National Pesticide Residue Monitoring Framework, built with CABI's PlantwisePlus programme and piloted in five counties, gives regulators one system for gathering and sharing residue data.
EnvironmentA James Hutton Institute study of ash, oak, Scots pine and Sitka spruce found that the right tree mix kept up to 94% of dependent species supported, the wrong one as few as 1%.
AgribusinessOxfam Novib's 'Toxic Trade' report says EU countries exported nearly 122,000 tonnes of pesticides banned at home in 2024, with Brazil the second-largest buyer after the United States.
LivestockUSDA confirmed New World screwworm in a hunter-harvested elk in Pecos County, Texas, as New Mexico reported a new cattle case and weekly US detections rose to six.
CropsArevo's Arginex, an arginine-and-phosphate seed treatment, raised winter wheat yields by 0.26 t/ha across seven sites in France, Germany, Italy and Poland, and matched full-fertiliser yields with 20% less nitrogen and phosphorus.
CropsThe agriculture ministry has frozen filings for formulants, solvents and other non-active ingredients while it reworks a module of the unified registration system launched in May, with no reopening date.
CropsIndia's weather office expects a low over the Bay of Bengal to become a depression by 25 October and possibly a cyclonic system, just as Odisha and Andhra Pradesh harvest their kharif rice.
AgribusinessWith Russian strikes since August cutting Ukraine's grain export capacity to 38 percent of normal, President Zelenskyy says the three countries have proposed food shipments under their flags, but Russia has refused.
EnvironmentA Center for Biological Diversity analysis finds the corn and sorghum herbicide at levels harmful to aquatic life in about a quarter of US rivers and streams, and says EPA's mitigation plan would clean up only 1% of the worst.
CropsDaily camera imaging of 47 corn varieties at the Danforth Center showed that combined heat and drought shrank most plants more than either stress alone, with effects that lasted weeks after the stress ended.
CropsThe draft sets 20 mg/kg for acetamiprid and 50 mg/kg for imidacloprid, two neonicotinoids used against tea mosquito bug, aphids and jassids, with 60 days for public comment.
CropsA new agriculture ministry decree fixes 31 December as the end date for zero duties on wheat, barley and corn, and freezes sunflower oil and meal duties at August levels instead of letting them float.
