LivestockThe Rosario exchange says export prices for shank and forequarter cuts to China have climbed to $7,700 a tonne from $5,400 a year ago, while Argentine cow slaughter is down 13 percent so far this year.
CropsThe Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' plan for the 15th Five-Year period keeps the bottom line of absolute security in staple foods, lifts soybean, oilseed, cotton and sugar capacity, and leans on breeding, smart machinery and tighter water, fertiliser and pesticide use.
CropsA Food Standards Agency update says a UK–EU sanitary and phytosanitary deal covering plant protection products is advanced but delayed after a change of government, while a CropLife UK study puts a no-transition 'cliff edge' at 7–11 percent of farm income.
CropsThe Department of Pesticide Regulation has finished risk-mitigation measures on the organophosphate tribufos, sold as DEF and Folex, tightening the label to protect farmworkers rather than removing the product.
AgribusinessKalshi added a commodities tab in April and briefly listed corn, soybean, wheat and cattle contracts; a Farm Bureau economist and the University of Illinois's Scott Irwin weigh the promise for small farms against unsettled regulation.
CropsThe 476th Registration Committee meeting cleared PI Industries' pioxaniliprole for rice, chilli, tomato and Bengal gram alongside new formulations from Willowood, UPL, FMC, Chemley and Seedlings, with MRL, shelf-life and pollinator conditions attached.
AgribusinessMosaic's first proprietary biological in Latin America showed gains of 3.5 bags a hectare in soybeans and 8 in maize in tropical-soil trials, but its Brazilian launch is stalled until an implementing decree leaves the vice-president's office.
Market ManagementChina has pledged 25 million tonnes of US soybeans a year through 2028 and bought about a million tonnes in the week before the talks, while a tariff truce expiring in November and new US drone duties complicate the summit.
CropsRegistration 06105 was cancelled by Ato nº 59 in the federal gazette of 18 September, banning production, import, export and sale, after an appeals commission refused to convert the penalty into a fine.
AgrotechLiteWeed pairs a 4-watt blue diode laser with on-board YOLOX-nano vision on a Raspberry Pi 5, and is aimed at spot treatment on small plots rather than broadacre fields.
LivestockMossgiel Organic Dairy in Ayrshire had three calls in ten minutes from buyers south of the border and turned down a further 40,000 litres; AHDB puts UK daily collections 3.7 percent below last year.
AgrotechAgrilo VR on Meta Quest headsets walks farmers and technicians through the seven-step colorimetric test that reads 12 soil measures from a smartphone photo, and logs where trainees stumble so the protocol can be refined.
AgrotechEditing the lachrymatory factor synthase gene cut enzyme activity to under 40 percent of controls in leaves and bulbs, but the edited plants were stunted and set no seed, so a commercial low-tear onion is still some way off.
