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.
HealthThe comment deadline on the literature search behind EPA's glyphosate human health assessment moves from 24 September to 23 November 2026, confirming a slower timetable.
FisheriesUttar Pradesh says fish production rose from 6.29 lakh to 15.90 lakh tonnes in eight years after it leased more than 80,000 hectares of Gram Sabha ponds and 2,205 km of rivers for fisheries.
CropsThe National Cover Crop Variety Testing Program compared commercial varieties of six fall-planted cover crops across 13 US sites; at the New York site cereal rye ND Gardner gave the most spring biomass.
LivestockJennifer Gazide took over her nephew's backyard poultry project in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, in 2023 and now runs 200 broilers and about 360 layers plus vegetables, supplying spaza shops, crèches and households.
CookingVegetable, egg mayo, paneer tikka, cheese corn and chutney sandwiches can be made fast with little oil.
CropsUniversity of Sydney scientists at Cobbitty mapped Yr88 from the wheat line Kazouria Taliani; it explains about 86 percent of resistance to one stripe rust strain but is race-specific rather than durable.
LivestockAHDB's October burst of its "This is British Pork" campaign adds a TV advert, an influencer-led Healthy Savings challenge and £6 family recipe videos, after a February push reached more than 40 million consumers.
AgrotechResearchers at Chonnam National University in South Korea built an AI system that matches drone imagery with ground-robot LiDAR to build multilayer digital orchard models, locating robots within a few centimetres.
Nutritionist Raisa Mehjabin writes that hormonal changes across the cycle can alter some women's appetite, sleep, mood or exercise capacity, and that one rule for everyone is not scientific.
EnvironmentAbout 50 metres of the Kopotakkho River embankment has collapsed at Sripur-Kurikahunia in Pratapnagar union, Ashashuni, Satkhira; villagers are shoring it up with sand and earth as fish enclosures and crops face flooding.
OpinionWisconsin agriculture secretary Randy Romanski writes that dairy, worth $52.8 billion a year to the state, deserves year-round support, and that World Dairy Expo brings foreign buyers to Wisconsin companies.
IslamThoughts that come unbidden do not spoil a prayer; Our Islam advises turning back to the verse, tasbih or supplication being recited, learning their meanings and performing each posture without hurry.
OpinionWelcoming the pesticide technical advisory committee's decision to stop registration, import and licence renewal of paraquat and glyphosate, Islamic scholar and agri-entrepreneur Minhaj Uddin Attar argues that strict enforcement and safe alternatives for farmers must follow.
Bagatipara Upazila Health Complex in Natore has 50-bed facilities but staff for 31 beds; X-rays have stopped for six weeks for want of film, two pathology workers handle all tests amid chemical shortages, and a new generator sits idle without fuel funds.
AgrotechJohn Deere has signed a three-year, $10 million partnership with Reservoir, a California field-testing hub that has drawn more than 20 agtech startups developing rugged AI and automation for farms.
CropsWest Bengal's agriculture department has begun re-verifying Krishak Bandhu beneficiaries to weed out fake claimants; no grant will be paid until checks are complete, though the form deadline has been extended.
LivestockRed Tractor's six-week consultation, running to 3 November, proposes cutting Beef & Lamb requirements by about a third and Dairy by a quarter, with farm-specific health planning and a new dairy code of conduct.
CropsUniversity of Illinois Extension has confirmed Asian copperleaf in Carroll County, a year after its first Illinois find in Stephenson County, and urges farmers to look for the weed after harvest.
