FruitsMost of the state's peaches were lost and cherries and apricots gave little or no crop; apple yields range from about 70% of normal to far less, with jobs and farm markets hit too.
CropsThe product pairs fluopicolide and cymoxanil for grapes, potatoes and vegetables, and ADAMA says it will also be launched in Ghana for cacao.
FruitsPlantings from a decade ago are reaching full production; a USDA outlook puts the US crop 18% above the 2025 record, while Turkish frost damage has lifted exports and prices.
Mohammad Sohel of Bhuapur, Tangail, is harvesting passion fruit, known locally as anarkali, from a trial planting in his courtyard and plans a commercial orchard.
FruitsZakir Hossain, back from Kuwait, harvests Ajwa, Barhi, Medjool and Helali dates from about 100 palms on 1 acre 57 decimals in Parbatipur, Dinajpur, and sold about 3,000 seedlings last season.
Homestead farmingAfter wind and a late frost cost her apple harvest, a South Dakota columnist asked a city forester how to choose, plant and protect backyard fruit trees.
Fruit of the golpata, the nipa palm of the Sundarbans, brought from the Khulna region is sold from a van in Dhaka's Jurain at Tk 10 each.
FruitsUniversity of Göttingen researchers found autumn ethephon treatment delayed spring flowering in some sweet cherry cultivars, a possible frost-protection tool, but in one case it cut fruit set from 16 to 6 percent.
AgrotechAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada is giving up to CA$1.7 million to Ontario firm Vivid Machines to adapt its tractor-mounted multispectral camera, which scans 15,000 orchard trees an hour, to grapevines.
CropsThe final registration review decision for the plant growth regulator is published under docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2014-0544; the notice itself does not say whether label changes were made.
AgrotechResearchers at Chonnam National University in South Korea built an AI system that matches drone imagery with ground-robot LiDAR to build multilayer digital orchard models, locating robots within a few centimetres.
AgrotechFrance-based Plantik Biosciences and Hudson River Biotechnology are combining machine-learning trait discovery with transgene-free genome editing to build a heat-tolerance trait that any strawberry breeder can license.
CookingHog plums (amra) are in the markets; cook Anisa Akter Nupur gives recipes for hilsa cooked with amra and a sweet-sour amra tempered with mustard seed and dried chilli.
