LivestockA 500-cow family dairy near Galena, Illinois, is earning extra income from farm tours, cheese and merchandise while higher corn prices and summer cooling bills squeeze its milk margins.
EnvironmentThe Micro Renewable Energy Federation welcomed reports that Ireland's 6 October budget will add battery-storage grants and extend solar support, after farm solar grants under TAMS 3 rejected 90 percent of applicants.
AgribusinessDealers and analysts say combines with 1,500 to 2,000 hours, the $150,000 to $300,000 sweet spot, are scarce because farmers are running machines longer, while low-hour late models pile up unsold.
OpinionAGRA communications chief Aggie Konde argues that African institutions should be organised and judged by whether they jointly raise the returns of farming enterprises, not by roads built or budgets spent one by one.
At the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali, CGIAR and AGRA speakers argued that Africa's USD 75 billion food import bill and persistent undernourishment call for regional trade and food processing, not blanket self-sufficiency.
CropsPlains Cotton Growers met about 26 lawmakers and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to push for a completed farm bill, emergency help and drought assistance as low margins squeeze producers.
AgribusinessThe Nigeria AgriConnect Compact aims to mobilise about $5 billion over five years to lift smallholder productivity, targeting food security for nearly three million people and 2.56 million jobs by 2031.
CropsA PG Economics assessment, released in Manila with ISAAA and CropLife Asia, estimates GM crops added nearly $385 billion to farm income in 1996-2024, more than half in developing countries.
LivestockAHDB's October burst of its "This is British Pork" campaign adds a TV advert, an influencer-led Healthy Savings challenge and £6 family recipe videos, after a February push reached more than 40 million consumers.
AgrotechJohn Deere has signed a three-year, $10 million partnership with Reservoir, a California field-testing hub that has drawn more than 20 agtech startups developing rugged AI and automation for farms.
LivestockRed Tractor's six-week consultation, running to 3 November, proposes cutting Beef & Lamb requirements by about a third and Dairy by a quarter, with farm-specific health planning and a new dairy code of conduct.
AgribusinessDame Angela Eagle acknowledged farmers' anger after the Sustainable Farming Incentive's second window ran out in under six hours, and pledged to work with the NFU on reform before it reopens.
CropsUS farmers must pick Agriculture Risk Coverage or Price Loss Coverage for 2026 by 11 December, and Texas A&M's Agricultural and Food Policy Center has updated its free online decision aid for the new rules.
