EnvironmentA bill signed by Governor Gavin Newsom requires the state's pesticide regulator to flag PFAS-containing pesticides in its public use database and follow their use over time.
CropsUniversity of Kentucky scientists found an endophyte in bearded shorthusk that keeps two usually short-lived alkaloids as end products, a clue for breeding safer pasture grasses.
CropsUniversity of Queensland and state trials under GRDC will combine sowing date, seeding rate and herbicides to control annual ryegrass and paradoxa grass in northern grain crops.
CropsMaipeng, a 36% bixlozone formulation, works by a mode of action unrelated to the ALS and ACCase herbicides that ryegrass and foxtail in Chinese wheat now resist ten- to twenty-fivefold.
On International Recovery Day, doctors and people in recovery say treatment and family support can end addiction, yet about 8.2 million people with addiction share 390 treatment centres.
Wildlife specialist Dr ANM Aminur Rahman photographed the lemon pansy, one of Bangladesh's common butterflies, in Chhital Para; it grows from egg to adult in 20 to 35 days.
The state-owned enterprise, the country's largest farming business, paid a NZ$25 million dividend and reported an 11.4% total shareholder return for its 2026 financial year.
CropsThe fungal disease, which has cut Midwestern yields by 25% to 30%, is now confirmed in four Virginia counties; extension specialists urge scouting, tolerant hybrids and a fungicide budget.
EnvironmentBoth ENDS says New Zealand weakened climate policy, including taking agriculture out of carbon pricing, in breach of the agreement; the trade minister says the country complies.
The maximum on 14 September was 17.59 million sq km, about 1 million below the long-term average; the four lowest records have all come in the past four years.
LivestockRed meat and co-product exports reached NZ$867 million, with beef up 26% and sheepmeat up 20%, though the industry warns one month's data must be read with caution.
With measles patients still on the wards, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital has no separate dengue ward; more than 70 children fill 30 dengue beds. A paediatrician says a fever alone is no cause for panic, but danger signs are.
AgrotechInstead of adding new resistance genes that blight soon overcomes, a Crop Science Centre team is reinforcing the potato's NRC helper proteins, using gene editing among other tools, for broader and more durable protection.
LivestockAn MSD Animal Health survey finds 66.2% of British dairy farmers now test colostrum quality, yet only 31.7% test calves for failed transfer of passive immunity, down from 41.1% in 2022.
AgrotechHalderman Real Estate & Farm Management says an in-house AI tool built with Margin AI works out combination bids in seconds at farmland auctions and prepares most of an appraisal, while keeping clients' farm records private.
LivestockA working group recommends building on existing manifests and brand inspection, linked to the national system, rather than a new scheme, to cut disease and market risk.
A hadith in Tirmidhi says that Allah enriches the heart of one whose concern is the hereafter, while one whose only concern is this world finds his affairs in disarray.
Dense dawn fog and a light cold wind have reached the country's northernmost upazila; vehicles are driving with headlights on.
Verse 2 of Surah An-Nisa orders that orphans be given their property and forbids consuming it; supporting orphans and widows through zakat, fitra and gifts is described as greatly rewarded.
LivestockThe 52nd tour on the Hi-Line showed contrasting breeding philosophies, a $2,700 average for a 600-pound steer and ranchers still culling heifers because of drought.
