HealthA Malaysian toxicologist told Fi Asia 2026 in Jakarta that rising heat, carbon dioxide and erratic weather favour the moulds that make mycotoxins, and that prevention through dry, cool storage is still the main defence.
CropsAlmost 100mm fell in parts of WA's south after one of the driest Julys on record; a Bremer Bay farmer's oats were flattened while farmers further north who missed the rain hope for more.
CropsThe first confirmed report worldwide of SDHI resistance in Plenodomus biglobosus, one of the two fungi behind phoma stem canker, raises concern about disease control in oilseed rape.
CropsA review in The Plant Journal suggests crops could be protected against whole families of pathogen proteins at once, using AI protein design to block features the pathogens share.
CropsThe INRAE-led HelEx project has crossed wild US sunflowers from arid regions with European varieties and is testing them in France, Germany, Hungary, Romania and Serbia, with a first variety expected in 2028.
CropsTrying to grow a spice Bangladesh almost entirely imports, a Benapole farmer planted small green cardamom from Africa; the three-and-a-half-year-old plants under mahogany shade are setting pods.
AgrotechHutchinsons trials near Broughton Astley found a drone-applied mix of N-Durance and Peloton added about 10 t/ha of fresh-weight maize for a cost of £115/ha, reaching tall crops that ground sprayers cannot.
CropsThe regional council's TANK plan would cut Heretaunga aquifer allocations from 160 to 90 million cubic metres; growers warn of unviable businesses and a worst-case $4 billion hit.
CropsA University of Missouri study of soil samples kept since 1888 finds average sulfur levels fell from 807 to 232 pounds per acre, and says growers can no longer count on the air to supply it.
CropsMaryland and USDA's plant health service have added Harford County to the box tree moth quarantine, putting nine counties under movement rules for boxwoods.
CropsPaddy and rice prices have slipped in Moulvibazar and Sreemangal markets; shoppers welcome cheaper rice, but farmers say rising costs of seed, fertiliser, irrigation and labour leave them unable to cover production costs.
A mobile court in Lalpur, Natore, fined BADC fertiliser dealer Saiful Traders Tk 50,000 under the consumer rights law after its stock did not match its stock register.
CropsUSDA's Grain and Feed Update shows Bangladesh imported over 1.74 million tonnes of maize in marketing year 2026, about 111,000 tonnes of it from the United States; Brazil supplied 68 percent and India 24 percent.
