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Good yield, fewer pests and fair prices: Satkhira jute growers expect a profit
Jute was sown on 11,675 hectares in the district this season, yields are running at 12–15 maunds a bigha and the fibre is selling at Tk 3,200–3,700 a maund.
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Rice Solution App Leads Bangladesh's Push to Use Artificial Intelligence in Farming
Artificial intelligence can raise quality and output while cutting costs, labour and pesticide use, and Bangladesh has begun using it through tools such as BRRI's Rice Solution app.
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Forty sacks, six hundred farmers: fertiliser protests hit three Nageshwari unions
Farmers blocked roads at Nageshwari in Kurigram after waiting all morning for fertiliser; one dealer said he had 40 sacks in store against about 600 farmers.
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Government buys more rice "under pressure" despite record stocks in its warehouses
Although government grain stocks are at a record high and Boro procurement beat its target, the government has decided to buy about two lakh tonnes more rice from mills, allegedly under pressure from millers and politicians.
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US corn condition edges up to 57% good-to-excellent as harvest reaches 8%
USDA's crop progress report for the week to 13 September surprised analysts who expected a decline, held soybeans at 58% good-to-excellent with 6% harvested, and showed winter wheat planting at 8%, behind the five-year average of 12%.
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Rajshahi's 50,000 fish ponds are drawing on the fertiliser allocated for crops
The district's September allocation is almost the same as last year's, yet farmers queue for hours; ponds need 1,334 tonnes each of urea and TSP a month with no allocation of their own, and the whole TSP quota is only 1,045 tonnes.
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Gene-edited soya flowers early enough for Britain in Corteva's Wellesbourne field trial
Crispr-edited soya plants at Corteva's Warwickshire trial site set pods weeks ahead of the late-maturing US lines they were bred from, an advance the company says could give Britain a home-grown protein break crop — if early maturity can be combined with yield and if precision-breeding rules allow i
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Pacific Northwest wheat came in 20% above average, but low protein and thin margins bite
Timely rain made 'pretty good crops' across the region, says Almira grower Mike Carstensen, US Wheat Associates vice chair; early loads of soft white below 9% protein drew dockages of up to 50 cents a bushel until the export trade found buyers, and prices still fall a little short of costs.
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US corn harvest reaches 8% and soybean harvest opens at 6%, both ahead of normal
USDA's 24th Crop Progress report of the season shows 8% of US corn and 6% of soybeans harvested by 13 September, ahead of the five-year averages, with corn rated 57% good to excellent and winter wheat planting lagging at 8%.
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After two decades of study, USDA clears a mite to fight tumbleweeds across the Lower 48
APHIS will permit release of the 0.2-mm Eurasian mite Aceria salsolae against Russian thistle, which infests 100 million acres of the West, harbours beet leafhoppers, clogs canals and fuels wildfire; California's agriculture department says it will start rearing and releasing the mites immediately.
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Anheuser-Busch puts US$200,000 into rice research and grower programmes in Arkansas
The brewer, which calls itself the country's largest end user of rice, is giving US$130,000 to the University of Arkansas, US$50,000 to USA Rice and smaller grants to Arkansas State University and Ducks Unlimited during National Rice Month.
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California expands the citrus greening quarantine from Murrieta into San Diego County
Effective 11 September, CDFA widened the huanglongbing boundary in the Murrieta area of Riverside County and into San Diego County (grids 484, 499 and 510) and enlarged Asian citrus psyllid bulk-citrus Regional Quarantine Zone 6 to match; movement of regulated articles falls under 3 CCR 3435 and 343
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California almonds start the year tight, with India's August shipments up 170%
Blue Diamond Growers' market update puts the carry-in at 470.7 million pounds (447.1 million edible), August shipments at 190 million pounds with exports up 31% — India alone took 44.3 million pounds — and August receipts 55% ahead of last year only because harvest began two weeks early; smaller ker