Combines are running in 12 of the 18 main corn states, with Texas 73% and North Carolina 54% harvested, while USDA's September yield forecasts fall for Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois and Indiana and rise for Iowa, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Announced at the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto on 15 September alongside a PST break on port investment, the plan fast-tracks mining approvals; 20 tonnes of Manitoba potash are already en route to Europe from the Arctic port, which also moved 100,000 tonnes of grain this year.
The Padma is running 74cm below danger level at Pabna, while 206 hectares of crops are under water in Chapainawabganj and 1,050 hectares in Daulatpur, Kushtia.
After inspecting buffer godowns in Nilphamari, Mahendranagar and Kurigram, the BCIC chairman said three domestic plants are producing about 5,000 tonnes of urea a day.
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.
At the first meeting of the 13th parliament's standing committee on agriculture, the minister set out plans to cut import dependence and export farm produce, protect soil health, implement the 2026 fertiliser-dealer policy, open flower and soil research centres at Gadkhali, expand cotton, maize, swe
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.
Dealer-level prices for urea, TSP, DAP and MOP have each been cut by one taka a kilogram, lifting the dealer margin for the first time since 2009.
Five members of one household at Bardal village in Ashashuni fell ill after eating a cooked puffer fish bought at a local market.
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.
Meeting staff of the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority, Food Minister Afroza Khanam said the eight divisional mobile labs are not enough and called for faster testing, closer monitoring and wider public awareness.
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.
