Agribusiness
2 kg Hilsa Sells for Tk 7,000 in Kuakata
A 2.1 kg hilsa caught in the Bay of Bengal off Kuakata sold at auction for Tk 7,200, at a rate of Tk 3,625 a kg.
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Vegetables
HSTU research yields heat-tolerant hybrid bottle gourd: five promising hybrids picked from 58 genotypes
A PhD study by Md Shafiqul Islam in the genetics and plant breeding department of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur, has selected hybrids that hold bottle-gourd yields under high temperatures; supervisor Professor Dr Md Hasanuzzaman says they will underpin future vari
Fruits
Hundreds of maunds of guava a day at Tk 700-800 on Pirojpur's floating market; district grows 7,692 tonnes on 716 hectares and trades Tk 18-20 crore a season
Growers paddle dinghies of fresh guava into the Atghar-Kuriana canal at Nesarabad for buyers from Dhaka, Chattogram and Khulna; the Padma Bridge has lifted demand and tourists follow; DAE deputy director Soumitra Sarker wants a mini cold store and UNO Amit Dutta is planning visitor facilities.
Livestock
Milk fever ahead of autumn calving: 100-120g of minerals a day and low-potassium silage
Older, over-conditioned cows are most at risk of the calcium crash that follows calving; the advice is a dry-cow mineral with 22% magnesium and high vitamin D, trace minerals from six weeks out, silage under 2.2% potassium and a calcium bolus rather than a bottle.
Fisheries
How to Remove Hilsa Bones at Home
With a little patience and the right technique, the fine bones of hilsa can be removed at home, either from raw fish or after a brief steaming.
Livestock
Thailand plans to ship 100,000 cattle a month to China by sea, more than Australia exports
A Chinese-backed quarantine hub at Bang Saphan port would send 1.2 million head a year, one and a half times Australia's 792,077 exports in 2025; Beef Central's South-East Asia correspondent doubts a herd of 1.38 million smallholders can assemble 3,300 export cattle a day, but notes Thai slaughter s
Market Management
Belgian Blue weanling heifers make up to €3,250 at Carnew Mart's special sale
More than 500 head met an 'outstanding trade' at the Co. Wicklow mart, with heifers mostly at €4.50-5.50/kg and the best near €8/kg, and five exporters bidding on bulls that cleared fully at up to €6.92/kg.
Agribusiness
Australia's $1.54 billion tallow trade sails through Gulf conflict on US biofuel demand
The world's largest tallow exporter shipped about 1.01 million tonnes of rendered products in 2025-650,000 t of tallow and used cooking oil plus 360,000 t of protein meals, with value up 26.5%; 65% of fats went to the US and 26% to Singapore for renewable diesel and jet fuel, and prices hover nea
Crops
The 10 Snakes Most Often Seen in Bangladesh, and Which Are Venomous
Many people assume every snake is venomous, but about 80 per cent of Bangladesh's snakes are not; here are the 10 most commonly seen species and which ones are dangerous.
Market Management
Polao rice becomes a luxury: chinigura at Tk 180-200 a kg, prices doubled in a year, restaurant polao sales down 30-40 percent
Bangladesh grows 18-20 lakh tonnes of aromatic rice a year by DAE's count; millers and restaurateurs blame hoarding and a one-off export approval of 61,000 tonnes; on 8 September the commerce ministry halved the permitted export quantity after 129 firms shipped 2,419 tonnes between 13 May and 30 Aug
Fisheries
Hilsa catch down 30pc as the season ends, a third straight year of decline
The Department of Fisheries estimates the July-August catch fell 30 to 40 per cent year on year; a 22-day fishing ban runs from 8 to 29 October.
Market Management
216 sacks of government rice found in a Tangail trader's warehouse
A mobile court fined the warehouse owner Tk30,000 at Kalihati, and locals are asking how rice allocated to the food-friendly programme reached a trader's store.
Livestock
Cattle can travel five days and still grade MSA, opening premium beef to the north
MLA research on 920 cattle, 4,000 samples and 6,000 consumers found neither 120-hour journeys nor road-versus-rail hurt eating quality when animals are fed, watered and rested, so remote producers can now supply Meat Standards Australia branded programmes; Teys says verification from farm to plant u
Crops
Eight companies told to pull adulterated fertiliser off the market
Laboratory tests on 16 samples collected at Saturia in Manikganj found products from eight companies to be adulterated; the upazila has more than 37,000 farmers.
Agribusiness
Japan passes US$100 billion in cumulative US beef and pork sales as grain leaders tour
A 24-member delegation from beef, pork, corn and soybean groups saw US Meat Export Federation promotion in Tokyo, retail displays, a beef-tongue plant, a Wagyu auction and culinary training, and United Soybean Board director Tom Griffiths argued that exporting soybeans through beef and pork keeps
Livestock
Beef + Lamb NZ forecasts lamb prices down 8% and profit down 20%, but still a strong year
Farm profit before tax is forecast to average NZ$267,200 in 2026-27 against a provisional record $335,500, with beef cattle prices down 4.5% and expenses up 4.2% on a stronger dollar, dearer fuel and fertiliser and a dry El Niño; chair Kate Acland says returns remain well above the five-year average
Livestock
Very strong El Niño could lift NZ breakeven milk price to $9.07/kg MS, DairyNZ models
DairyNZ's EconTracker scenarios put farm working expenses at $6.57-6.78/kg milksolids against a $6.18 baseline, feed costs up to $2.02/kg, pasture deficits of 2-4.2 t DM/ha in Northland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and the East Coast, and milk production down 2.1-3.3%; the sector is financially strong, b
Agribusiness
New Zealand food exporters get two years to move to digital labelling with 2D barcodes
Regulation minister David Seymour has accepted recommendations making GS1 digital-link QR codes the default, a framework rather than a law that lets packaging carry batch, best-before, weight, price and recyclability data; Woolworths trials in Australia cut food waste by up to 40%, and the codes als
Agrotech
Overhead camera and AI predict a turkey's weight three weeks ahead with 93% accuracy
Colour and depth images of 30 male turkeys from day 37 to day 133, matched to five hand-weighings a week and fed to a ResNet neural network, forecast individual body weight almost as well as the system estimates it today, a first for computer vision in poultry, though the authors say far larger tri
Livestock
Australian almond hulls trialled as dairy cow feed in New Zealand to cut methane and costs
Olam Food Ingredients, which owns almond orchards in Victoria and a milk plant at Tokoroa, has had pilot supplier farms feeding hulls and shells for two seasons alongside the Agolin Ruminant additive; early results on methane are 'very positive', says COO dairy Naval Sabri, though he calls it one to