Restricted herds fell to 5,300 from 6,449 a year earlier; the minister defended suspending 28 vets from testing, said the badger biosecurity scheme will reopen next year and argued that only Ireland and Britain are paying for TB research.
LivestockThe CFIA says the Caribbean country restored access on 11 September for beef and offal from cattle of all ages, 8,515 days after closing its border in May 2003; JBS and Cargill in Alberta and Tru North Foods in Manitoba are approved to ship to a market that imported about $215m of beef in 2025.
IIT Gandhinagar's India Drought Monitor shows the area under drought jumping from 46% to 53.2% in a week, with 33.4% of the country in moderate drought or worse, 15.4% severe and 3.8% extreme; monsoon rain is 15% below normal and 41% of 734 districts are deficient, raising fears for soil moisture be
One Texas producer lost about $70,000, Commissioner Sid Miller says; officials list the tells — odd ears, eyes and tails, missing brands and tags, repeated animals, warped fences — and tell buyers to demand video, references and independent inspection before sending money.
LivestockThe CFIA confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza on 10 September at a commercial poultry operation in the Rural Municipality of De Salaberry, the first Canadian detection since six outbreaks in May; 17.5 million birds have been affected since December 2021.
Homestead Creamery in Wirtz, Virginia, founded by dairymen in 1999, made its first profit of $13,927 in 2005 after calling in economist Dave Kohl, and now targets $25 million in sales by 2028 on milk, ice cream, butter and an unlikely lemonade line.
A granular hydrogel called InteliGel, placed under the seed to soak up water in wet spells and release it in dry ones, raised soybean yields by 19.2 bushels an acre in a dry 2024 season and about 9 in a wet 2025 at Precision Planting's research farm, though it will not be sold before 2028.
The 2025 annual report of the stakeholder-led agri-food strategy, launched at the Ploughing, lists the climate adaptation plan, the generational renewal commission and horticulture and forestry reviews; a revised strategy is due shortly.
At Nampo Cape in Bredasdorp, grain farmers told minister Willie Aucamp that subsidised competitors, slow tariff triggers and some two million tonnes of imports are pushing wheat out of the province; BFAP found local wheat's baking value 39% higher than imports yet its SAFEX price about R700/t lower,
The Global Farmer Insights 2026 survey of 5,500 farmers in ten countries shows adoption up only 4 points since 2024 (2% in the US), generative AI used by 17% but paid for by 4%, agronomists trusted by 56% and AI by 6%, and input costs the top risk for two-thirds of North American farmers.
A stalled front from Kansas to the Great Lakes is bringing repeated rain through 17 September; Kansas State's Logan Simon reports Fusarium, Diplodia and Aspergillus calls 'blowing up', and agronomists urge scouting beyond the end rows, harvesting sprouted fields first and drying to 15% moisture.
Swiss farm-management company xFarm Technologies has acquired Brazilian platform Sibium Analytics, taking its digital tools into sugarcane and biofuel production and its footprint to 24 million hectares across more than 600,000 farms.
Marks & Spencer says it is the first retailer to monitor dairy cow welfare with AI video analytics across its whole supply pool: cameras track lying, feeding, social behaviour, mobility and body condition to build a health profile and comfort score for every cow, tested to the standard of a trained
