Market ManagementUSDA's Economic Research Service forecasts all food prices up 2.9 percent in 2026, grocery prices up 2.4 percent and restaurant prices up 3.5 percent, with beef, fresh vegetables and seafood rising faster and eggs falling sharply.
AgrotechValeouro Biotec and startup Symbiomics will co-develop biological crop inputs from genetically reprogrammed microbes, starting with a biofungicide for soybeans, corn, cotton and sugarcane; a new biofactory is due around 2029.
IslamThe Quranic story of the Companions of the Cave, who fled a tyrant to protect their faith, teaches trust in God and steadfastness, and warns against pointless argument.
AgribusinessThe Nigeria AgriConnect Compact aims to mobilise about $5 billion over five years to lift smallholder productivity, targeting food security for nearly three million people and 2.56 million jobs by 2031.
EnvironmentDelhi's 2026-27 winter action plan requires 2,354 targeted industries to connect continuous emission monitors and fit pollution-control devices, tightens the particulate norm to 50 mg per cubic metre and closes defaulters.
CropsBrazil's Embrapa Florestas has opened licensing of four yerba mate cultivars, BRS 408, BRS 409, BRS BLD Aupaba and BRS BLD Yari, bred for different yields, shade tolerance and flavour.
FruitsUniversity of Göttingen researchers found autumn ethephon treatment delayed spring flowering in some sweet cherry cultivars, a possible frost-protection tool, but in one case it cut fruit set from 16 to 6 percent.
AgrotechAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada is giving up to CA$1.7 million to Ontario firm Vivid Machines to adapt its tractor-mounted multispectral camera, which scans 15,000 orchard trees an hour, to grapevines.
CropsAgriculture minister Javid Ahmad Dar told the assembly the region has two testing laboratories, has banned or restricted 32 highly toxic formulations and is setting up a residue lab.
EnvironmentA Carbon Brief analysis finds Amazon deforestation more than halved between 2022 and 2025 as Brazil enforced its forest code, avoiding at least 20,000 square kilometres of clearing, while the end of the soy moratorium adds new risk.
Market ManagementPakistan Bureau of Statistics data show insecticide imports rose to 6,931 tonnes worth $35.5 million in July-August 2026, while fertiliser import volumes fell even as their value rose.
CropsThe final registration review decision for the plant growth regulator is published under docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2014-0544; the notice itself does not say whether label changes were made.
HealthIndia's National Statistical Office found health and medical trips cost an average Rs 32,167, excluding treatment, and make up 38.4 percent of rural overnight trips against 16.5 percent in cities.
CropsA PG Economics assessment, released in Manila with ISAAA and CropLife Asia, estimates GM crops added nearly $385 billion to farm income in 1996-2024, more than half in developing countries.
CropsAnyang Indorama Gases plans to lift the site to about 2 million tonnes of urea a year by 2029, a brownfield expansion financed by a five-bank consortium led by OCBC.
CropsKissan Ittehad in Balochistan postponed a long march on Islamabad after the provincial government promised action on a higher wheat support price and relief; the national body wants Rs 5,000 per 40 kg.
CropsAHDB's final harvest update puts UK winter wheat at 6.9 t/ha, about 11 percent below the five-year average, spring barley 17 percent below and oats 14 percent below, while oilseed rape averaged 4.0 t/ha, 19 percent above.
AgrotechA paper from Vellore Institute of Technology in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems pulls together AI tools for predicting useful traits, guiding CRISPR edits and phenotyping crops by drone.
CropsChina's summer grain output rose 0.7 percent to 150.7 billion kg despite typhoons, floods and drought, and the autumn harvest is under way with drones, drying towers and satellite-guided tractors.
CookingBlend full-fat yoghurt with an equal amount of iced water, lift off the butter and melt it down to make ghee in about an hour; the leftover buttermilk can be drunk.
