CropsA Food Standards Agency update says a UK–EU sanitary and phytosanitary deal covering plant protection products is advanced but delayed after a change of government, while a CropLife UK study puts a no-transition 'cliff edge' at 7–11 percent of farm income.
CropsThe Department of Pesticide Regulation has finished risk-mitigation measures on the organophosphate tribufos, sold as DEF and Folex, tightening the label to protect farmworkers rather than removing the product.
CropsThe 476th Registration Committee meeting cleared PI Industries' pioxaniliprole for rice, chilli, tomato and Bengal gram alongside new formulations from Willowood, UPL, FMC, Chemley and Seedlings, with MRL, shelf-life and pollinator conditions attached.
AgribusinessMosaic's first proprietary biological in Latin America showed gains of 3.5 bags a hectare in soybeans and 8 in maize in tropical-soil trials, but its Brazilian launch is stalled until an implementing decree leaves the vice-president's office.
Market ManagementChina has pledged 25 million tonnes of US soybeans a year through 2028 and bought about a million tonnes in the week before the talks, while a tariff truce expiring in November and new US drone duties complicate the summit.
CropsRegistration 06105 was cancelled by Ato nº 59 in the federal gazette of 18 September, banning production, import, export and sale, after an appeals commission refused to convert the penalty into a fine.
AgrotechLiteWeed pairs a 4-watt blue diode laser with on-board YOLOX-nano vision on a Raspberry Pi 5, and is aimed at spot treatment on small plots rather than broadacre fields.
AgrotechAgrilo VR on Meta Quest headsets walks farmers and technicians through the seven-step colorimetric test that reads 12 soil measures from a smartphone photo, and logs where trainees stumble so the protocol can be refined.
DAE figures put aman transplanting in Chattogram at 179,660 of a 179,980-hectare target, with Cox's Bazar at 99 per cent, Feni at 66,837 hectares and Noakhali and Lakshmipur beyond target; officials credit favourable rain, timely seedlings and quick post-flood support to farmers.
CropsECIU analysis puts British yields about 11 percent below the five-year average and Belgium's down 21 percent; processors in Britain are paying more than £300 a tonne against £180 at the start of the year.
CropsIn Whole Earth Farming, Smallholder Farmers Alliance co-founder Hugh Locke argues that moving about 240 million of the Global South's 475 million small farms to regenerative agriculture and agroforestry could supply all the extra food needed by 2050 while restoring soils and drawing down up to 0.72
EnvironmentModels point to the current El Niño exceeding the 1982–83 event, with central Pacific sea-surface anomalies possibly above 3.0 °C, yet the Bureau of Meteorology says a neutral-for-now Indian Ocean Dipole, warm seas around Australia and long-term warming will shape spring and summer as much; water st
CropsResearchers at The Sainsbury Laboratory and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon have shown that the PIPL7 peptide made by the embryo is the long-sought ligand of the IKU2 seed-size receptor in the endosperm; raising PIPL7 expression produced larger seeds in a crop proof of concept, and a patent has
