AgribusinessUSDA's latest forecast puts 2026 net farm income at $158.4bn, down from 2025, with cash receipts of $540.3bn, crop receipts up to $253bn, animal receipts down to $287.3bn, government payments up to $47.4bn and production expenses at $492.8bn, where livestock purchases overtake feed as the largest li
ILRI's Women in Business project trained 20 young women as village poultry vendors in Tanzania; seventeen of them have since delivered more than 21,600 dual-purpose Kuroiler chicks to over 4,200 farms.
A Ghanaian-British research team is using electrical resistivity tomography on maize plots at CSIR-CRI to see how crop residues and cover crops change the way water moves and is stored in the soil.
The Consolidated Central Valley Table Grape Pest and Disease Control District's board authorised industry-generated reactionary funds on 21 August to cover a US$1.7 million shortfall in CDFA's glassy-winged sharpshooter surveillance and treatment programme after federal and state funding was cut yea
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.
A boa constrictor named Princess has been chosen after an audition to appear in the Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in New York.
CropsWith fertiliser prices high and margins thin, a Burrus Seed agronomist and a University of Illinois soil scientist say soil tests within 10 to 20 per cent of the recommendation, grain testing for real removal rates and variable-rate spreading can cut phosphorus spending without giving up yield.
CropsGrowing degree units in southern Indiana came within 50 of the highest on record from March to August, and with heavy rain and high night temperatures speeding maturity, agronomists at the Farm Progress Show urged growers to scout for crown rot and lodging risk and harvest those fields first.
Melissa Moody, who had never sat on a tractor before COVID-19 cost her a job, bought Carl Hoellerer's organic dairy at Cincinnatus, New York, in February with a Farm Service Agency loan and the sale of her house, milking 45 cows on 127 acres with a mentor a phone call away.
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
After his worst winter-wheat harvest since 2017, Bryce Black is weighing perennial grains whose deep roots reach water, hold soil and store carbon; Kernza, domesticated by The Land Institute since 2001, covered just 3,511 acres in the US last year and yields 20–40% of wheat, but cuts fertiliser, fue
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension pecan specialist Monte Nesbitt estimates the 2026 Texas crop at about 39 million pounds against 32 million last year, after a wet spring spread scab, downy spot and powdery mildew and a hot, dry August arrived just as kernels began to fill; wholesale prices approached $3
