Agribusiness
Consumer Rights Drive on Indian Hilsa at Jashore Market
The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection fined a Jashore fish wholesaler Tk 5,000 for failing to show the set price and import papers for Indian hilsa.
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Crops
President warns of lasting harm from overuse of fertiliser and pesticides
Receiving a delegation from Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University at Bangabhaban, President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called on agricultural universities and extension services to work together to make farmers aware.
Agribusiness
Djibouti, importing 90% of its food, launches AgriConnect Compact for livestock and dates
Launched with Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed, the World Bank Group and IFAD, the compact targets 10,000 producers, a 25% rise in livestock output, 44% in horticulture and 5,000 jobs, with US$243 million of investment needs to 2030 to be co-financed by IFAD, AfDB, IsDB and FAO; IFAD has put
Agribusiness
Irish farmers have until October 15 to declare fertiliser closing stocks, even if nil
Every professional fertiliser user must record what was on hand at midnight on September 14 in the National Fertiliser Database via MyAgFood; department staff helped farmers file at the Ploughing.
Crops
Local Rice Varieties Disappearing for Lack of Conservation
As farmers in Moulvibazar switch to high-yielding rice for bigger harvests, local varieties are disappearing for lack of seed conservation and research.
Environment
Turn sewage into fertiliser and irrigation water, South Africa's deputy minister urges
Dr Jack Bloom told a Food for Mzansi session at Nampo Cape that pilot projects show treated sludge and wastewater with undetectable E. coli, safe for farm use; with most fertiliser imported and small towns short of water, he wants public-private sludge plants, decentralised treatment near farms and
Fisheries
A 2.1kg hilsa sells for Tk7,200 at the Kuakata auction
The fish fetched Tk3,625 a kilogram at a Patuakhali auction, while researchers warn that large hilsa are becoming scarce.
Market Management
Hilsa floods Dhaka markets and prices drop, but a 'Gujarat hilsa' scare keeps buyers away
Fishermen are landing more fish ahead of the breeding-season ban and prices are down Tk 200-500 a kilo, yet stalls stood almost empty on Wednesday as shoppers worried about telling Padma hilsa from imported look-alikes.
Environment
The panda lives on bamboo, and that is why it lives only in China
An adult giant panda must eat between 12 and 38 kilograms of bamboo a day, and the loss of a bamboo forest puts the species directly at risk.
Market Management
Global Dairy Trade index eases 1.1% as cheddar jumps 16.5% and butter falls 5.7%
The index slipped to 1,163 from 1,177 at the latest auction, with 42,444 tonnes sold to 126 winning bidders over 18 rounds at an average price of €3,349/t.
Crops
Not Just Anywhere: Tree Planting Must Be Planned
Syed Mazarul Islam Rubel argues that successful tree planting depends not on numbers but on planting the right species in the right place.
Fruits
Banana growers thrive on Tangail's fallow hills and Jamuna chars: 5,250 hectares, bunches costing Tk 200-250 sell for Tk 400-550, Sigatoka the main risk
Amritsagar, Mehersagar, Champa, Sabri and cooking bananas from Madhupur, Ghatail and Sakhipur hills and the chars of Bhuapur, Sadar and Kalihati feed Dhaka's markets; growers Sanowar Hossain, Kachar Uddin and Zahirul Islam count their margins, DAE deputy director Ashek Parvez advises papaya, sugarca
Agribusiness
US farmland values hold firm despite tighter farm finances, Kansas City Fed economist says
Land appreciation over the past decade has beaten inflation-adjusted 10-year bond yields by about 3.5 percentage points, and farmers remain the main buyers, while Kansas auctions ranged from $1,900 to $3,304 an acre for dryland in August and September.
Agribusiness
Ireland asks farmers what the next CAP investment scheme should fund
A call for evidence on on-farm capital investments runs to October 30, with the minister saying TAMS 3 has drawn three times the applications of its predecessor and paid out more than €190 million since June 2024.
Environment
Two earthworms in ten shovels: the count behind an Ohio small-farm conservation award
Don Hammersmith of Defiance County went from no-till for lack of time to diverse cover-crop mixes, poultry litter and precise nutrient rates, and now finds a worm in almost every spadeful, earning the new small-farm category of the Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award.
Livestock
Finishing 12,000 hogs a year cut a Nebraska row-crop family's fertiliser bill by up to 70%
Walt and Shelli Traudt of Clay Center added contract hog finishing to their corn and soybean farm in 2012; the manure now covers 550 acres, feeds two crops from one application and has lifted yields on dryland pivot corners.
Agribusiness
Hilsa Supply Doubles in Barishal, Price Down Tk 20,000 a Maund
Hilsa supply at Barishal's wholesale markets has nearly doubled in a week, pushing wholesale prices down by up to about Tk 20,000 a maund.
Agribusiness
One good crop does not set a new rent: five factors for next season's farm leases
Farm manager Michael Lauher says 2026's extremes of flooding, heat and August rain make field-by-field judgement essential, that higher prices do not restore the margins that once justified aggressive rent rises, and that drainage deserves its own line in the lease.
Market Management
US corn stocks-to-use ratio falls below 10% for the first time in four years
USDA's 11 September report cut 2026-27 ending stocks to 1.57 billion bushels, an 18% fall, leaving about 35 days of supply; adviser Jon Scheve sees longer-term upside but tells farmers to sell any harvest corn they cannot store.
Crops
UK sugar beet price for 2027-28 goes to arbitration after NFU and British Sugar talks fail
An independent arbitrator will rule by 30 October on the price of the 2027-28 crop after talks between NFU Sugar and British Sugar stalled; growers say the uncertainty is already weighing on cropping decisions, while last year's contract was settled by mid-August.