EnvironmentThe Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is funding five studies on how PFAS gets into fields, which crops take it up and how farmers can test for it cheaply.
CropsAt the Global Sorghum Conference in Lubbock, growers' leaders said new funding and gene editing could speed breeding for drought, heat and water scarcity.
CropsA Grain SA economist told an NAMC webinar that a large maize surplus could blunt any El Nino price rise, while input costs have outpaced crop prices.
CropsAn ICAR workshop at Punjab Agricultural University proposed CRM CONNECT to coordinate extension, machinery and industry as the state moves from cutting straw burning to using the 20 million tonnes of straw it produces.
CropsTeagasc trials over four years found tolerant winter barley varieties showed fewer virus symptoms and held yield without insecticide in a high-pressure year, but were not immune.
WorldUnicef says 25.8 million children in Latin America, one in seven, face growing risks from droughts and floods brought by a record El Nino, with harvest losses raising malnutrition risk in Central America.
BangladeshBangladesh's second agro-ecological zone is a narrow, restless belt along the Teesta, Dharla and Dudhkumar rivers. Here the river builds new land and takes old land away, and farmers grow maize, potatoes, chillies and carrots on chars that may vanish in the next flood. Understanding it takes village-level records, and satellite images and machine learning can help only when they are checked in farmers' fields.
AgrotechA University of Sao Paulo geneticist says biological pest and disease control, such as the bacteria strains his university's company Genica develops, could double output on existing land.
EnvironmentThe water resources ministry has sent a proposal for a feasibility study of about Tk 23 crore on the Teesta master plan to the Planning Commission; the plan covers bank protection, dredging, embankments and reclaiming 170 sq km of land.
A mobile court seized 150 sacks of urea and fined a pesticide trader Tk 5,000 at Kamarjani port in Gaibandha Sadar for bringing in and stocking fertiliser without authorisation.
CropsA BADC-approved low-lift pump irrigation scheme in Ullapara, Sirajganj was sanctioned on land not owned by the applicant, and the pump was built on neighbouring railway property.
Market ManagementThe IGC sees a 90% chance of a very strong El Nino peaking in November, with world wheat and maize output each down 3%, though wheat futures kept falling on geopolitics and UK yields came in well below average.
EnvironmentThe Gandak rose above the danger mark and breached a ring dam in Areraj block of East Champaran, Bihar, flooding about a dozen villages, submerging paddy and leaving people short of drinking water and fodder.
