CropsThe INRAE-led HelEx project has crossed wild US sunflowers from arid regions with European varieties and is testing them in France, Germany, Hungary, Romania and Serbia, with a first variety expected in 2028.
LivestockFarmers in the Ashburton high country moved stock and feed ahead of a well-forecast snowfall of up to 15cm, and expect some lamb losses but nothing catastrophic.
HealthMeasuring two white-cell proteins, CD64 and CD169, a test sorted bacterial from viral fever in 85 infants within 15 to 20 minutes, researchers told the European Emergency Medicine Congress; it could cut needless antibiotics.
Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals launched seven herbicides and insecticides under its Sardar brand in Gandhinagar on 23 September, entering a market led by private and multinational firms.
CropsThe first confirmed report worldwide of SDHI resistance in Plenodomus biglobosus, one of the two fungi behind phoma stem canker, raises concern about disease control in oilseed rape.
AgrotechUniversity of Missouri engineers have built an AI framework that lets each farm drone choose whether to analyse its crop images on board, on a nearby edge server or in the cloud, cutting missed deadlines in simulations.
CropsA review in The Plant Journal suggests crops could be protected against whole families of pathogen proteins at once, using AI protein design to block features the pathogens share.
AgribusinessTrump and Xi extended their trade truce to 10 January without a broad deal or new farm purchase figures; China is ahead on soybeans but behind on a $17 billion pledge for other US farm goods.
AgrotechHutchinsons trials near Broughton Astley found a drone-applied mix of N-Durance and Peloton added about 10 t/ha of fresh-weight maize for a cost of £115/ha, reaching tall crops that ground sprayers cannot.
LivestockThe Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society's new Dairy Beef Index ranks bulls by expected profit per calf, combining calving ease, gestation length, growth and carcass traits for dairy herds breeding beef calves.
AgribusinessFarm Credit Canada says food and beverage manufacturing sales rose 4% to $88.1 billion in the first half of 2026, but real sales were flat and US trade restrictions and counter-tariffs are pressing on margins.
LivestockThe Quebec meat processor's rebuilt Trois-Rivières plant can turn out 50 million kilograms a year of pork and poultry products and adds about 100 jobs.
CropsThe regional council's TANK plan would cut Heretaunga aquifer allocations from 160 to 90 million cubic metres; growers warn of unviable businesses and a worst-case $4 billion hit.
