AgrotechThe Xpedite system raised yield potential by 10% in trials and up to 20% in water-stressed conditions; Hard Red Winter comes first, Soft Red Winter in 2029 and Hard Red Spring in 2030.
CropsBASF has launched Zidua Prime, a two-ingredient burndown and residual herbicide that Ontario soybean growers can use from the 2027 season.
A Sherpur court has sent fifteen fertiliser dealers to jail over the alleged black-market sale of Tk 140 million worth of state-allocated fertiliser.
CropsAt the UPASI Tea Research Foundation's centenary conference in Coonoor, industry panellists said commoditisation and climate change are squeezing producers and premium, speciality teas are the way out.
CropsAgriculture minister Andrew Muir has extended the pilot Protein Crop Scheme for peas, beans and lupins to the end of the 2027 scheme year, while a study of its benefits concludes.
A detector dog led US Customs and Border Protection to corn and seeds in luggage from Ghana carrying a non-native moth never before intercepted at a US port of entry.
A North Dakota start-up has raised $2.3 million to breed rhizobial inoculants that can outcompete native soil bacteria on pulse crops.
CropsA hybrid wheatgrass bred at the University of Saskatchewan is out-competing herbicide-resistant kochia on saline ground, and a new trial is testing how to grow it for seed.
CropsJohn Innes Centre and Ethiopian scientists have field-trialled a LAMP test that detects the wheat blast fungus on simple equipment, a tool aimed at countries such as Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Zambia.
CropsA Texas A&M and UC Berkeley study of four decades of county data finds genetically engineered crop adoption raised yields, cut volatility and slowed the northward drift of US cropping.
Of an annual seed demand of about 1.3 million tonnes, only 30 per cent reaches Bangladeshi farmers through the formal, quality-controlled system.
The Wolfe family's 1,500-acre Fairfield County farm, run on no-till, strip-till and cover crops, has won an Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award.
With diesel up from Tk 115 to Tk 135 a litre, irrigation and haulage costs are rising in the Aman season and casting doubt over the coming Boro crop.
