At a government grower imbizo, the deputy trade minister promised talks with lenders on finance suited to cane growers, and more predictable reviews of the sugar import tariff.
An EY analysis released by Protein Industries Canada finds that shifting 10 per cent of raw crop exports into domestic processing could add $5.4 billion to GDP and about 34,000 jobs.
AgribusinessGlens of Antrim Potatoes, which grew and packed potatoes for supermarkets across Ireland for more than 50 years, has ceased trading after cost pressures left it without a solvent option.
Commerce minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir says market surveillance will be tightened year-round, as lentil and edible oil imports rise sharply.
LivestockThe liquidator is reclaiming payments made to 96 farmers, feed companies, quarantine properties and the Irish broker Purcell before the May 2022 Ocean Ute shipment to China; a handful of farmers are settling at a discount.
AgribusinessIsis Central Sugar Mill in Queensland, which takes cane from about 200 growers, has an in-principle deal for a state loan capped at $9m and wants Canberra to match it.
FruitsA spring frost cut the Pacific Northwest harvest from 23.6 million boxes, returns of 70–80 cents a pound barely cleared costs of 65–70 cents, and small organic growers say packers will no longer take their fruit.
At a Bijoynagar press conference BFA chairman Md Mosharraf Hossain said BCIC dealers appointed in 1995 paid Tk 2 lakh deposits while BADC seed dealers were made fertiliser dealers in 2009 on Tk 25,000, and most irregularities now surfacing involve them; the government granted Tk 1 a kg of the Tk 4 c
AgribusinessA Truth Social post promised cheaper potash than Canada's, but Belarus says its output is contracted, mainly to China, and an analyst notes the post gives no price, tonnage or buyer.
AgribusinessThe Canadian Agricultural Safety Association gets two years of federal funding for campaigns such as BeGrainSafe, days after a fatal equipment accident in Manitoba.
AgribusinessPowered by the active DMPSA-K2, the ready-to-use inhibitor slows the conversion of ammonium to nitrate and can be blended with urea, ammonium nitrate, DAP, MAP, NPK and liquid fertilisers at the plant or along the supply chain.
Market ManagementCrude palm and soybean oil landed at Mumbai 11 percent dearer than a year ago and sunflower 7 percent; a third round of increases since March is on the table unless vessel arrivals and a duty cut hold prices.
AgribusinessEligible acres exceeded the national cap, so FSA is trimming every new allocation by 3.69 percent; producers may change their election, sign multi-year contracts to 2031, and now add SCO coverage whatever they choose.
