China revoked the registrations of Sarla Foods, Pattabhi Agro Foods and Om India Trading on 17 September, citing genetically modified material that Indian testing has not found; APEDA has required GMO tests on every China-bound consignment since 9 June, and exporters say a rejected cargo costs $2,50
A Nature Genetics study led by Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences with Murdoch University and ICRISAT built a 14-genome peanut pan-genome, resequenced 2,320 accessions from 87 countries and found a hidden gene that halves plant height; the dwarf line LuAi-1 yields about 20% more at high densi
At the Southern Regional Agriculture Conference in Hyderabad, India's agriculture minister called for an assessment of what its FTAs make exportable, pushed high-value horticulture from spices to cocoa, and cited coconut exports rising 62% to ₹7,038 crore in a year, with new coconut, cashew and coco
Milk output has risen from 146.3 million tonnes in 2014-15 to an estimated 248 million in 2024-25 and per-head availability to 471 g a day, but the growth is now in value-added lines — Mother Dairy's curd, paneer, cheese and ice cream volumes up 30% in April–June, Amul the first Indian FMCG brand pa
AHDB analysis shows Brazil shipped over 3,200 tonnes of beef to the UK in August, up 52% on a year earlier, after rushing 20,000 tonnes into the EU ahead of the 3 September ban, while Australia redirects beef away from China; Irish beef exports to the UK were worth an estimated €1.7 billion in 2025.
A Mitchell, South Dakota farmer expects corn at about half of a normal crop and soybeans at two-thirds after a hot, dry season, while late rain has stalled drydown and pushed harvest back by up to two weeks.
Remote drug delivery by dart is spreading among western Canadian cattle producers as a way to treat a sick or injured animal without a chute, but Manitoba Agriculture and veterinarians say it suits only some cases, few drugs and trained hands.
The ninth CTIC/SARE/ASTA survey, released 1 September at the Farm Progress Show from 657 farmers in 46 states, finds average cover-crop acreage of 397.9, a 3.5 bu/ac corn and 1.4 bu/ac soybean yield gain after covers, one in three users grazing them, 16.3% using drones, and 81.6% of farmers paid an
A two-day tour of the Salinas Valley and Bakersfield found California's fruit and vegetable growers squeezed by compliance costs that have risen 1,366% in under 20 years, overtime rules that cut workers' hours, scarce labour, and cheaper competition from Peru and Mexico.
Luckhoff irrigation farmer Fanie Botha told Farmer's Weekly after its El Niño preparedness panel that the resilience steps advisers urge cost money smaller farmers do not have: a combine that cost R2 million twelve years ago now costs over R5 million, urea jumped from R8,000 to R16,000 a tonne at pl
A chute on the combine funnels chaff and weed seed into narrow rows — past research put 95% of waterhemp seed into 5% of a field — and Ohio Soybean Council-funded work by Amber Emmons and Dr Eugene Law finds heavy chaff can cut waterhemp emergence 90% at densities equal to a 100 bu/ac soybean crop,
Centenary Thurles has set Harvest 2026 prices of €225/t for feed barley, €237/t for feed wheat and €220/t for oats, a year-on-year rise that the IFA and the Irish Grain Growers' Group say still falls short of soaring input costs on tillage farms.
The first phase of the BASF–IRRI collaboration launched in 2024 showed that alternate wetting and drying, enabled through direct-seeded rice, cuts methane and water use without losing yield; the next phase looks at soil carbon and nitrogen and at biochar, with Philippine trials meant to inform China
