AgribusinessGlens of Antrim Potatoes, which grew and packed potatoes for supermarkets across Ireland for more than 50 years, has ceased trading after cost pressures left it without a solvent option.
LivestockA new Meat Standards Australia pathway lets cattle travelling up to 120 hours by road or rail stay eligible for grading, after MLA-funded research found no loss of eating quality.
The James Hutton Institute and AgriSound will link bioacoustic pollinator monitoring to fruit set, yield and quality in strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and cherries.
LivestockThe Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society's new Dairy Beef Index combines calving, growth and carcass traits into a profit-per-calf figure for dairy farmers choosing Angus bulls.
The Eastern Cape agriculture department has handed a R1.4 million shed with a dipping tank to 48 communal wool farmers at Ngonyama Village, along with 10 Dohne Merino rams.
Market ManagementChina's expanded export allowance has cooled the urea market: India's RCF tender drew lowest offers of about $390 a tonne, 58% below April's emergency purchases, though prices remain above year-ago levels.
AgrotechA new whitepaper from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers sorts the artificial intelligence in tractors, sprayers and other farm machines into assist, advise and act levels, and sets out what responsible deployment requires.
LivestockThe liquidator is reclaiming payments made to 96 farmers, feed companies, quarantine properties and the Irish broker Purcell before the May 2022 Ocean Ute shipment to China; a handful of farmers are settling at a discount.
LivestockMLA's September projections put 2026 slaughter at 9.6 million head, carcase weights at 313 kg and exports near 2.4 million tonnes, with the herd easing more slowly than forecast from 30.8 million head; live exports are down 25 percent.
LivestockWith vineyards and orchards on the Heretaunga Plains being returned to pasture, landowners are eyeing lambs and Friesian bull calves; store lambs peaked above $6/kg liveweight in June and ewes with lambs at foot are $20 a head up on last year.
FruitsTampa-based Soilcea's CarriCea T1 rootstock, approved by the EPA this year, keeps a tree's immune system working; in a test field the edited trees are taller and greener, but the fruit is years away.
CropsThe TRF3 panel found 'qualified administrative inertia' after Ibama's re-evaluations of imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam sat unimplemented for years; Ibama has 360 days to finish its fipronil review.
CropsICA, Cenicaña and Ingenio Providencia are running three parasitoid releases in Versalles, Valle del Cauca, and early monitoring shows Diatraea numbers falling, with at least 50 percent control expected.
