EnvironmentWater managers expect Wickiup Reservoir to drop to about 20,000 acre-feet this fall after a severe drought, as North Unit Irrigation District farmers endure an eighth year of reduced water allotments.
AgrotechBranValt's Dual Narrow Pan, an add-on for its 40-inch SmartPan drop-pan system, is built to land upright in tall corn, sunflower and canola stubble so that farmers get a true sample of the grain their combine leaves behind.
LivestockFeedlots have kept inventories steady by feeding cattle longer, pushing August slaughter weights to 1,438 pounds, but record-low placements and dearer feed mean that buffer is running out, Pro Farmer reports.
AgrotechThe Hytrac research project, led by Vienna University of Technology with Steyr and other partners, is building a hydrogen-combustion tractor with an electric power-split transmission and on-farm hydrogen production and refuelling.
CropsMore than 70 percent of Idaho's documented Palmer amaranth populations resist glyphosate and New York populations show metabolic resistance to atrazine, researchers told the GROW weed-management network.
VegetablesIreland imported €1.97 billion of fruit and vegetables in 2025 against exports of €492.5 million, a deficit of about €1.47 billion that has revived warnings about food security and the shrinking horticulture sector.
CropsIrish co-op Tirlán set harvest prices of €220/t for green feed barley and €230/t for green feed wheat, up €30/t on last year, but took in 190,000 tonnes against almost 223,000 in the 2025 bumper harvest.
EnvironmentFloods since 16 September have covered 41 Thai provinces and killed at least eight people, after Bangkok received 320 mm of rain in two to three days.
Market ManagementUnionised employees of the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation ratified four-year agreements, giving grain shippers more certainty on a corridor that carried about 12.9 million tonnes of grain in 2025.
AgribusinessAverage US farm real estate loan rates fell to 6.97 percent in the second quarter of 2026 from a peak of 8.04 percent, but with the Fed raising rates and Treasuries above 5 percent they could climb about 44 basis points by year-end.
LivestockSeafield Veterinary Group has confirmed bluetongue in Aberdeenshire, one of 38 cases in Scotland this season, and urges farmers not to wait until spring to vaccinate sheep, cattle and other ruminants.
HealthFarm Dog, a nonprofit launched on 8 September, wants to remove cost and stigma from farmers' mental health care by funding professional sessions and pulling agribusinesses' separate efforts into one pathway.
AgribusinessCorteva will dismantle its pesticide loyalty programme and pay $35 million to 12 states under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which says the change should lower pesticide prices; the case against Syngenta continues.
