LivestockDAFM confirmed the first ovine BTV-3 detection on 21 September; more than 11,000 animals have been antibody-tested this year, 5.7 million vaccine doses licensed for import, and Britain has passed 1,500 cases this season.
LivestockA USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report says integrators' expansion, better genetics and automation drive the growth, with hog production still recovering from African swine fever and a strong El Niño the main risk.
At a state fisheries review in Kolkata chaired jointly with Union fisheries minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh, the chief minister spoke of raising fish output, expanding aquaculture and market links; 2.8 lakh applications and 1.2 lakh fisher registrations in four months, Kisan Credit Cards for fishers and
EnvironmentA PNAS paper estimates that replacing irrigated yields with rain-fed cropland would release 6.86 gigatonnes of carbon, more than the whole US emitted in 2024; pump electrification would cut the direct emissions further.
CropsThe protected Greek crop is mislabelled at market stalls with potatoes from as far as Egypt, water now comes from desalination plants, and a leading grower warns there may be few Greek farmers left in a decade.
Opening the 21-23 September global conference on One Health action in agrifood systems at FAO headquarters, Environment Minister Abdul Awal Mintoo said people, ecosystems and agrifood systems share one landscape in the Ganges delta, that Bangladesh's national One Health framework now formally includ
A UK gene-discovery startup and a Dutch genome-editing specialist will offer breeders a single route from trait problem to edited plant, starting with tomatoes.
LivestockAndrew Connon told the Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers conference that independent pig producers are in 'financial and mental hell', that disease is the biggest threat after profitability, and that strong beef and sheep prices are not translating into margin.
CropsAsked to review the nitrates dates after a drought summer, Martin Heydon said Teagasc's catchment research shows the closed period is the period of highest nutrient-loss risk, while promising to keep monitoring.
AgribusinessAugust wholesales rose 6.5 percent but retail registrations only 0.8 percent; with El Niño rainfall at 85 percent of the long-period average, deficient kharif harvests could delay replacement buying.
Ministers of agriculture, health and environment, including Bangladesh's environment minister, gathered in Rome as FAO launched an online livestock intelligence hub and, with WHO, WOAH and CMS, a framework on avian influenza.
LivestockUSDA's Foreign Agricultural Service forecasts 1.515 million tonnes next year on firm retail and quick-service demand; lower hatchability and higher chick mortality linked to HPAI kept 2026 output at 1.485 million tonnes.
EnvironmentAn Economic and Political Weekly paper by Sandeep Kaur of the Central University of Punjab finds large farmers with deeper borewells earn higher returns while small and marginal farmers watch shallow wells run dry and buy water from neighbours.
