AgrotechThe US gene-editing firm and the Indian crop company will develop and license edited traits in Brassica juncea, India's main edible oilseed, where yields lag leading producers.
CropsUniversity of Queensland and state trials under GRDC will combine sowing date, seeding rate and herbicides to control annual ryegrass and paradoxa grass in northern grain crops.
CropsUniversity of Kentucky scientists found an endophyte in bearded shorthusk that keeps two usually short-lived alkaloids as end products, a clue for breeding safer pasture grasses.
CropsMaipeng, a 36% bixlozone formulation, works by a mode of action unrelated to the ALS and ACCase herbicides that ryegrass and foxtail in Chinese wheat now resist ten- to twenty-fivefold.
EnvironmentA bill signed by Governor Gavin Newsom requires the state's pesticide regulator to flag PFAS-containing pesticides in its public use database and follow their use over time.
ARS's Digital Agricultural Systems Hub uses a 50-terabyte image library, a robot camera and boom-mounted cameras to train and deploy computer vision for farms.
The state-owned enterprise, the country's largest farming business, paid a NZ$25 million dividend and reported an 11.4% total shareholder return for its 2026 financial year.
CropsThe fungal disease, which has cut Midwestern yields by 25% to 30%, is now confirmed in four Virginia counties; extension specialists urge scouting, tolerant hybrids and a fungicide budget.
EnvironmentBoth ENDS says New Zealand weakened climate policy, including taking agriculture out of carbon pricing, in breach of the agreement; the trade minister says the country complies.
The maximum on 14 September was 17.59 million sq km, about 1 million below the long-term average; the four lowest records have all come in the past four years.
LivestockRed meat and co-product exports reached NZ$867 million, with beef up 26% and sheepmeat up 20%, though the industry warns one month's data must be read with caution.
AgrotechInstead of adding new resistance genes that blight soon overcomes, a Crop Science Centre team is reinforcing the potato's NRC helper proteins, using gene editing among other tools, for broader and more durable protection.
LivestockAn MSD Animal Health survey finds 66.2% of British dairy farmers now test colostrum quality, yet only 31.7% test calves for failed transfer of passive immunity, down from 41.1% in 2022.
