Crops
Government to Buy 110,000 Tonnes of Fertiliser From Three Countries
The government has decided to import 110,000 tonnes of MOP, DAP and urea fertiliser from Belarus, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
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Cooking
A Sweet That Looks Like an Orange: Semolina Orange Laddu Recipe
Semolina and fresh orange juice make small laddus shaped like oranges, a different sweet for guests or family.
Livestock
EU suspends Brazilian poultry imports over antimicrobial guarantees; AVEC calls it fair
Under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1189 Brazil lost authorisation to export poultry and several other animal products after missing a 3 September deadline to prove its controls exclude growth-promoting and human-reserved antimicrobials; AVEC wants relisting only after a Commission audit that be
Crops
Five years of trials move CDC Churchill malting barley from 250 acres to a possible 1,400
Saskatchewan grower Chad Ferguson says the variety out-yields AAC Synergy with a stronger disease package and now has enough maltster acceptance to be worth switching to; Churchill took 9.6% of western Canada's malting-barley area in 2025, up from 3.1% in 2023.
Livestock
Two Jungle Cat Kittens Caught After Coming for Ducks in Sreemangal
The Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation has rescued two jungle cat kittens that residents caught when they came after ducks at a house in Sreemangal.
Agrotech
Kubota brings $6,000 autosteer to compact tractors, mowers and utility vehicles
WorkSmart Autosteer, the first product of Kubota's new WorkSmart technology line, is a dealer-installed guidance system for smaller equipment, on sale now in the United States with no dates yet for Europe, Australia or New Zealand.
Market Management
CME Group takes over European dairy futures as EEX phases out butter and powder contracts
Under an agreement with the European Energy Exchange, CME will launch its own European dairy indices, futures and options and inherit the EEX butter and skimmed-milk-powder indices before the end of 2027, weeks before Euronext launches rival contracts on 19 October.
Livestock
In ovo sexing reaches 40% of EU egg market as US hatcheries weigh the cost
Technology that determines a chick's sex inside the egg has gone from zero to 40% of the EU layer market in five years, driven by bans on male chick culling, while in the United States only premium brands have adopted it and retailers refuse to pay extra.
Agribusiness
Bayer and Neste sign to scale winter canola on the Southern Plains as a biofuel feedstock
The commercial agreement will expand Bayer's newgold winter canola in the US Southern Great Plains as a rotation crop with wheat, supplying lower-carbon oilseed for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, demand the partners put at roughly 40 billion gallons by 2040, with hybrids carrying
Environment
Huge Dead Whale Washes Up on the Andharmanik River in Taltali
A dead whale about 30 feet long washed up on the bank of the Andharmanik river in Taltali, Barguna, drawing crowds from far and wide.
Livestock
Onderstepoort's acting CEO suspended over alleged foot-and-mouth vaccine mark-ups
After minister Willie Aucamp put allegations of serious misconduct to the board of Onderstepoort Biological Products, acting chief executive Dr Jacob Modumo was given notice of precautionary suspension pending an independent investigation; the state vaccine agency is alleged to have bought FMD doses
Agrotech
Under Wisconsin solar panels forage caught up by the third cut; alfalfa beat full sun 25%
A University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension trial at the 16-acre Kegonsa solar site found forage plots under panels produced 70 to 88.5 per cent of full-sun dry matter across the season, but out-yielded open plots by the third cutting, with alfalfa under single-axis trackers 25 per cent ahead.
CropsMissouri breeders find which genes must be stacked to beat soybean cyst nematode
With more than 89 per cent of commercial soybeans carrying PI88788 resistance that many SCN populations now overcome, the University of Missouri's Northern Missouri Soybean Breeding Program has identified the gene and allele combinations, built on rhg1-a, that resist the state's nematode populations
CropsDelta stubble-burning rules this drought year: Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi
With drought stretching across the Delta, Farm Progress sets out the three states' smoke-management rules for post-harvest crop burning: voluntary guidelines and 24-hour notice in Arkansas, certified and non-certified burn managers with $250 to $500 penalties in Louisiana, and permits with a notaris
CropsMinnesota enters harvest in drought: 58% of topsoil short, half of pastures poor
Moderate to severe drought covers much of Minnesota as harvest nears, with NASS rating 58 per cent of topsoil short or very short, 62 per cent of corn and 57 per cent of soybeans good or excellent, and pasture 49 per cent poor or very poor, while the state works with USDA on disaster declarations.
Agribusiness
The Cheap Hilsa Trap: How Fraudsters Are Taking Buyers' Money Online
A fraud ring using fake Facebook pages and cut-price offers for Chandpur hilsa is taking buyers' advance payments and damaging genuine online fish sellers.
LivestockOvergrazing's arithmetic: 20% less forage on 100 acres is 25 AUM of bought hay
Nebraska Extension agricultural economist Shannon Sand works through the arithmetic of overgrazing: a pasture whose production falls 20 per cent drops from 128.2 to 102.6 animal-unit months, a shortfall that has to be bought as hay, and regaining the original carrying capacity can take three to five
Agribusiness
India Again Seeks Bangladesh Hilsa for Durga Puja
Indian traders have again asked Bangladesh for permission to import hilsa ahead of Durga Puja, and the commerce ministry says it views the request positively.
Vegetables
Northern Bangladesh plants 33,900 hectares of early winter vegetables for a 314,000-tonne target; beans and cabbage already in the markets
Rangpur, Dinajpur, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari, Gaibandha, Thakurgaon and Panchagarh have radish, cauliflower, cabbage, beans, bottle gourd, tomato and red amaranth in the ground; heavy rain destroyed some plots that have since been replanted, and a Mithapukur grower has sold cabbage at Tk 2,0
Agrotech
Agricultural universities' cluster admission test for 2026-27 set for 2 January 2027, with Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in charge
The vice-chancellors of the cluster universities took the decision in principle at a meeting on 7 September; application rules, eligibility, seats, schedule, marks distribution and centres are to be announced in due course.