Tight margins, high land values, GLP-1-driven protein demand, shrinking export populations and new biofuel markets are reshaping US agriculture, CoBank's Jacqui Fatka told a Women in Agribusiness summit.
EnvironmentThe Welsh Government will allow slurry spreading until 15 November 2026 on all soils, with limits, and raise advance SFS and BPS payments from 70% to 80% of claim values.
At the Rooibos Tea Producers Association AGM, panellists said sampling, drift and handling — not laboratories — drive residue detections that delay shipments and threaten premium export markets.
Market ManagementGrowers and food makers warn that National's pre-election plan to force a break-up of the Foodstuffs co-operative's Pak'nSave business could raise supply costs rather than cut food prices.
LivestockA USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report expects Philippine chicken imports to reach 780,000 tonnes in 2027 on food-industry demand, with Brazil taking the largest share.
AgrotechA two-year Innovate UK-funded trial with AgriSound and Aviasenze uses microphones and machine learning to read flock sounds in free-range and barn laying houses and flag changes in health or behaviour.
LivestockA Temora family sold first-cross ewes for a reported Australian saleyard record of $620 a head, while about 45% of New South Wales remains in drought.
FruitsHawke's Bay grower John Bostock has secured southern-hemisphere rights to the Haegeum gold kiwifruit and wants to export it, which current rules reserve to Zespri.
American ranchers are fitting GPS collars to cattle in place of wire, but the technology now has to prove it is dependable on the ground.
CropsEU food-safety records show at least six notifications this year of unauthorised genetically modified material in Chinese rice products, from noodles to miso paste.
LivestockUSDA's Economic Research Service cut its 2026 beef production forecast by 90 million pounds and its 2027 forecast by 145 million pounds on weak slaughter and a tight herd.
AgribusinessA European Commission Eurobarometer survey finds near-universal support for agriculture, 70% who say the CAP benefits all Europeans, and food quality and origin topping shoppers' concerns.
Agriculture specialists at Detroit Metropolitan Airport found Aspidoproctus giant scale insects, never before intercepted at a US port of entry, on bark carried by a traveller from Cameroon.
