Cooking
How to cook mutton the way it tastes at a Bengali wedding
A roasted whole-spice powder, thinly sliced onions, tomatoes added late and yogurt and green-chilli paste at the end are the secrets of the wedding-feast gravy.
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Livestock
Southland and Otago farmers face feed squeeze as wet weather drags on
New Zealand's Rural Co-ordination Group says silage is very tight and transport is stretched, and urges farmers to plan feed early and seek support.
EnvironmentUSDA offers $5 million for partners to restore wetlands and floodplains on farmland
The Natural Resources Conservation Service will fund partner organisations to restore, steward and assess wetland and floodplain easements on agricultural land, with applications due on 19 November.
IslamOn sleepless, anxious nights, prayer is the believer's refuge
Verse 153 of Surah Al-Baqarah and hadiths from Hudhayfah and Sunan an-Nasa'i point to seeking patience and peace through prayer.
Crops
78 tonnes of urea seized on Chattogram coast as subsidised fertiliser leaks to Myanmar
The seizure of 78 tonnes of urea bound for Myanmar at Mirsarai and Sitakunda in two days has sharpened concern over leakage, hoarding and artificial shortages of subsidised fertiliser ahead of the Boro season; the government says stocks are sufficient.
Fisheries
Muradnagar's cast nets vanish as native fish decline and China duari traps spread
In Muradnagar, Cumilla, on the Gomti, Titas and Arsi rivers, the traditional cast net has all but disappeared as water bodies are filled in and native fish decline, while harmful small-mesh China duari traps spread.
Crops
Pesticide prices up 10-20% in a year in Matlab Uttar, some double
In markets of Matlab Uttar, Chandpur, crop-protection products have risen 10-20 percent in a year on average and some, such as Thiovit, have doubled; farmers say their production costs keep climbing.
Crops
Cumilla farmers pay Tk 13-33 a kg over the official fertiliser price
Urea is selling for Tk 33-40 a kg and TSP for Tk 55-60 in markets across Cumilla against an official Tk 27, while the district agriculture extension office says stocks are sufficient.
LivestockVictoria delays tougher poultry cage rules by a year because of bird flu
The new welfare standards, part of a national plan to phase out conventional cages by 2036, now start in mid-2027, while caged-egg farmers vow to fight the phase-out.
CropsUSDA opens comment on Bayer's GE cotton built to resist bollworm and budworm
APHIS is taking comments until 20 November on Bayer Crop Science's petition to deregulate a cotton variety that resists six moth-family pests.
LivestockNebraska study tests pooled fresh semen to raise heifer pregnancy rates
Early results from a three-year University of Nebraska project show pregnancies up almost 11% in heifers bred with fresh semen pooled from three bulls.
Livestock
Two FFAR-funded studies point to less antibiotic use in beef cattle
Kansas State models show group treatment for respiratory disease did not pay in 72% of groups, and Texas Tech links liver abscesses to rumen health, not genetics.
Fisheries
Bhola fisherman nets a 24 kg black carp in the Meghna; 18 buyers share it for Tk 17,500
A 24 kg black carp was caught in the Meghna off Bhola by fisherman Md Sultan Sardar; the upazila fisheries officer says the East Asian carp may have escaped a farm pond in flood water and grown in the river.
EnvironmentDairy farmers help heal Queensland's Mary River, once among its most degraded
Pile fields, fenced banks and effluent reuse on farms now keep an estimated 27,000 tonnes of fine sediment a year from reaching the southern Great Barrier Reef.
CropsBangladesh's fertiliser subsidy is costly and unequal, CIMMYT policy note says
A CIMMYT policy note by Ravi Nandi and former BARC chief Wais Kabir says fertiliser subsidies take nearly 80% of the agriculture ministry's budget, favour large farms and should be reformed gradually, not removed.
CropsTexas corn growers' leader expects 30% of a normal crop in his worst drought
Hagen Hunt, president of the Texas Corn Producers Association, says this year's drought in the northwest of the state is worse than 2011, while diesel and input costs rule out breaking even.
Environment
Colorado wins $13.7 million to pay farmers who farm with conservation practices
The Advancing Markets for Producers money from NRCS will go out as direct grants of $20,000 to $300,000 to help growers sell crops raised with soil-health practices.
Fisheries
Tk 20-a-litre fuel rise deepens losses for Patuakhali's coastal fishers
With catches already poor in rivers and the sea, a Tk 20-a-litre rise in diesel, kerosene and other fuels has deepened losses for about 70,000 registered fishermen and fish traders on the Patuakhali coast.
CropsA new cause of low falling number puts Northwest wheat discounts in question
Washington State University researchers say most of this year's low falling number wheat showed no alpha-amylase activity, raising doubts about whether it should be penalised.
LivestockImmigration raids in Kansas beef towns cut slaughter and delay thousands of cattle
Fed-cattle slaughter fell nearly 16% on Thursday as ICE operations in Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal kept packing-plant workers away, cattle groups say.