Market Management
Flour prices climb in Dhaka while broiler chicken and eggs stay dear
Loose atta has gone up Tk 5 a kilo and maida Tk 10 in a month; broiler sells at Tk 190–200 a kilo and a dozen brown eggs at Tk 150, unchanged for six weeks.
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Virginia declares emergency as drought leaves farms 500,000 tons short of hay
Governor Abigail Spanberger has declared a state of emergency granting over-width waivers for hay transport, after drought cut Virginia's hay yields by 35 percent and left the state short by about 500,000 tons going into winter.
LivestockDairy checkoff barred from spending farmer levies on ESG projects
USDA has ordered the dairy checkoff to stop funding environmental, social and governance initiatives and told the Agricultural Marketing Service to apply the same rule to every other commodity checkoff.
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Bringing back country-of-origin labels on beef would cost $835m a year, industry says
An analysis commissioned by the Meat Institute puts the price of the Senate farm bill's Thune Amendment, which would order a WTO-compliant return of mandatory labelling within a year, at $835 million annually in segregation and record-keeping across the supply chain, and warns of new trade friction
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Stop the misuse of antibiotics in poultry, state minister tells Gazipur workshop; farmers now hold farmer cards and hatching-egg exports have begun
At a workshop on enforcing the Fish Feed and Animal Feed Act 2010, State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Sultan Salauddin Tuku said needless antibiotics put food safety and production costs at risk, and that the government is alert to complaints of horse meat being sold in Gazipur.
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Virginia declares an emergency as drought leaves livestock farms 500,000 tons of hay short
Governor Abigail Spanberger's 45-day order lets wider truck loads move hay from 1 October, unlocks emergency funds and activates price-gouging protections; hay yields are down 35% statewide and up to 70% in places, and producers began feeding hay on 30 of the first 90 grazing days.
Market Management
Dairygold lifts August milk price by 0.5c to 39c/L as Irish processors edge higher
The co-op's chairperson cites stronger protein and cheese returns and slowing European milk supply; Kinisla also added 0.5c to reach 39.6c/L and Lakeland set 39.1c/L in the Republic and 31.4p/L in Northern Ireland.
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Ireland's bluetongue tally rises to five as three more herds test positive
DAFM confirmed BTV-3 in single animals in Wexford, Wicklow and Kildare herds; with infected midges more numerous in England and Wales, a senior vet says the risk to Irish stock is higher than last year.
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Montana Stockgrowers move to join the court fight over American Prairie's bison
MSGA and the South Phillips Grazing Districts have asked to intervene in American Prairie Foundation v. Department of the Interior, which challenges the BLM's May finding that the group's 900-plus bison are conservation animals rather than production livestock under the Taylor Grazing Act; a 4 Septe
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Seeds and small livestock reach 13,000 Haitian households as food crisis deepens
An FAO emergency food production programme funded through the Regional Humanitarian Pool Fund is distributing more than 205 tonnes of seed and over 160,000 small animals in three of Haiti's worst-hit departments.
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UK pigmeat output up 3.8% in August as sow slaughterings jump 21% amid the market glut
Defra's monthly estimates put clean pig slaughterings at 844,000 head (+2.2%) and production at 79,000 tonnes, with carcase weights near 90 kg; over eight months the kill is up 2.9% to 7 million head and production 4.9% to 670,000 tonnes, while sow and boar slaughterings of 18,000 in August show pro
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Paraguay's beef shipments to the US rise 46% as tight cattle supplies pull in lean trim
US imports of Paraguayan beef reached 30,000 tonnes from January to July, mostly frozen lean beef for grinding, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service reports; the United States is set to become Paraguay's third-largest market by volume in 2027, when its beef exports are forecast at 460,000 tonnes carc
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How to Make Egg Bhuna with Milk
Using a little milk instead of water in the gravy gives the familiar spicy egg bhuna a new flavour and a thicker, smoother sauce.