With phosphorus retailing above US$1,000 a ton and some retailers burned on spring nitrogen, CropLife hears GROWMARK, AgriPartners and Sunrise Cooperative urge early procurement, more storage and honest grower communication; nearly half of global urea exports pass the Strait of Hormuz, over 60% of U
An Agbiz outlook carried by FarmingPortal: local fertiliser prices were 20% above a year earlier at the end of August with Brent above US$100, tractor sales have fallen four months running to 606 units in August (down 13%), foot-and-mouth restrictions leave few export outlets if drought forces cattl
July shipments of 224,305 tonnes were worth $641.8 million; Mexico, Colombia, Chile and South Korea have all dropped restrictions imposed after a pseudorabies detection in Iowa, and exports to Canada are up 8% in volume so far this year.
Daily slots fell from 36 to 34 this month and to 32 this week, with more cuts possible without rain; Rabobank's Angus Gidley-Baird estimates that over 70% of Australia's US beef exports and 90% of its Canadian exports go to the east coasts, roughly 24% of national production, more than goes to China
An order signed on 10 September by deputy secretary Md Maksudul Islam sets up the room in the ministry's Room 528 under the additional secretary for fertiliser management and inputs; two dealers' complaints had been logged by 2 pm on Sunday, joint secretary Akhtarunnahar said.
Speaking at the Secretariat after Prime Minister Tarique Rahman visited the ministry, Md Amin Ur Rashid said monitoring committees now sit in nearly every upazila and district, a ship arrives every week, the reserve is raised to 15 lakh tonnes before peak season and the situation will settle within
Speaking in Fulgazi, Feni, Agriculture Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid said monitoring teams were at work, two crore farmers would get farmer cards and farm loans of up to Tk 10,000 had been waived.
The ceiling drops from Tk 6.75 to Tk 6 a kilo until 31 December; owners say they will lose Tk 1.725 billion, while growers say the real cost is no more than Tk 2.50 a kilo.
Corn ending stocks fall to 1.567 billion bushels and the farm price rises 30 cents to $4.80; soybean prices dropped double digits on the day even as USDA raised its season-average forecast to $12; wheat was unchanged at 717 million bushels of stocks.
The September WASDE lowers the 2026/27 US corn yield by 2.2 bushels to 178.5 an acre and production by 213 million bushels to 15.8 billion, trims corn ending stocks to 1.6 billion, raises soybean output to 4.5 billion bushels with exports up 25 million, and leaves wheat unchanged.
New-crop commitments stood at 16.3 million tonnes in late August, 7.76 million of them to China, about 31% of the 25 million-tonne truce target; the US share of world soybean exports fell to 22% last year and exports plunged 34% to $16.2 billion in 2025.
At the Taltola and Agargaon markets on Friday, brinjal sold for Tk 100-140, tomato Tk 120-140 and bitter gourd Tk 60-80 a kilo; broiler eased Tk 10 to Tk 180, and a one-kilogram hilsa cost Tk 2,700-2,800.
Aus paddy has slipped to Tk 700-800 a maund from Tk 1,000-1,050 a year ago; millers blame excess rice imports for weak demand and want government procurement in the Aus season too.
Revenue of $997.9 million was the second-best month on record, ABPA says; China took 50,988 tonnes against 83 a year earlier and the EU 42,432 tonnes, both rebounding from the 2025 avian-influenza suspensions, while January-August shipments reached 3.92 million tonnes worth $7.69 billion.
The Bangladesh Fertilizer Association says stocks are ample and that attempts to engineer shortages, including the looting of dealers' warehouses in northern districts, are unacceptable; dealers must lift BADC, BCIC and private allocations on time, sell at the government price, report arrivals to up
Thirty-eight growers from Pabna and Natore, bearing a 16-kilo elephant-foot yam among other crops, raised NGO loan instalments, litchi storage, fertiliser allocation and fines on farm carts.
Char farmers are bringing jute by boat to the Kamarjani and Fulchhari markets; the district planted 13,987 hectares this year with an output estimate of 34,987 tonnes, but growers still fear buyer syndicates and ask how long the price will hold.
CropsNational Sunflower Association executive director John Sandbakken expects above-trend yields outside the drought-hit High Plains, on USDA's first 2026-27 outlook of 1,775 pounds an acre, 2.31 billion pounds of seed and 359 million pounds of ending stocks, while a Russian-driven global crop leaves su
Answering an urgent debate on fertiliser shortages, ministers told parliament that stocks stand at 5.171 million tonnes against demand of 3.587 million, that monitoring cells now run in every district, and that 4,918 new union-level dealers will fill 3,759 dealerships left vacant.
Late rains have left Prairie farmers weighing drying against waiting; Manitoba Agriculture's Darren Bond puts drying wheat from 20% to 15% moisture at about 80 cents a bushel on a $100,000 propane batch system and 57 cents on a $500,000 natural-gas continuous-flow dryer, and says to set that against
Under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1189 Brazil lost authorisation to export poultry and several other animal products after missing a 3 September deadline to prove its controls exclude growth-promoting and human-reserved antimicrobials; AVEC wants relisting only after a Commission audit that be
Under an agreement with the European Energy Exchange, CME will launch its own European dairy indices, futures and options and inherit the EEX butter and skimmed-milk-powder indices before the end of 2027, weeks before Euronext launches rival contracts on 19 October.
Against a target of 113,220 hectares, 113,205 hectares of Aman had been transplanted by Tuesday; the district received 100 per cent of its August and September fertiliser demand through 206 dealers and still holds 1,916 tonnes of urea, though a dealer notes allocations have not kept pace with more i
October feeder cattle closed the week of 31 August up $3.63 at $320.15 per hundredweight, ending five straight weekly losses, and October live cattle rose $1.23 to $212.95, as traders weighed expanded beef imports, USDA's Ranchers First initiative and two presidential executive orders against a firm
Growers from Kurigram to Jashore say they cannot buy fertiliser at any price, while the agriculture ministry reports stocks higher than last year.
After attempts to stir disorder at distribution points in Roumari and Bhurungamari, Kurigram's agriculture department says allocations are at record levels, 5,875 tonnes of urea in August against 3,253 last year, plus 1,572 tonnes of DAP, 1,648 of MOP and 924 of TSP, that Aman top-dressing is near
The Global Energy and Fertilizer Crisis Response Framework, approved on 1 September 2026, adds USD 4.1 billion in Bank lending and up to USD 960 million from the African Development Fund, lifting the 2026 lending target to about USD 12.7 billion; valid for one year, it works through four pillars as
Cepea's Mato Grosso do Sul calf index is up 7.83% from January to August against 5.89% for São Paulo fed cattle and 1.77% for lean cattle; earlier female culling has thinned the calf crop, while cautious feedlots facing uncertainty over China, Europe and the US have kept lean-cattle gains modest.
LivestockOklahoma State economist Derrell Peel says summer's cattle-market correction masked strong fundamentals: feedlot placements at the lowest in the series since 1996, a 33.6-million-head July feeder supply that is the smallest ever, 2026 hay production down 7.9 per cent, and Mexican cattle only slowly
FERN and Offrange report from the world's largest salmon run, where Trident, Canfisco and Silver Bay now dominate after a decade of consolidation; base prices have barely moved since the 1980s, collapsing from US$1.15 a pound in 2022 to 50 cents in 2023, and small operators such as Kvichak Fish pay
Despite a good harvest, supply at the Jatrapur market has fallen and traders say middlemen are buying jute at a premium and moving it to India by river.
Research in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, set out in CABI Working Paper 38 by Dr Morris Akiri, finds commercial banks provide about 7% of formal farm credit; unrealistic interest rates, monthly repayments that ignore the harvest cycle and land-title collateral exclude women an
After ordering spices and ghee off the shelves, BSTI says scanning the QR code on the wrapper is the quickest way to separate genuine from fake.
Sugar has reached 70 rupees a kilogram in several West Bengal districts, and many on social media are blaming ethanol made from sugarcane.
Market ManagementGreen chilli sold for Tk 400 a kilogram at Dhaka's Shantinagar and Segunbagicha markets on 31 July 2026, up Tk 100 in a week, while onions and farm eggs became dearer and most vegetables stayed near Tk 100 a kilogram after weeks of rain and floods.
Market ManagementContinuous rain and floods unsettled Dhaka's kitchen markets in July 2026: a Jagonews24 survey published on 24 July found most vegetables, fish, eggs, onions and green chillies Tk 20 to Tk 200 a kilogram dearer within a week, with green chillies at Tk 280 to Tk 300.
