AgribusinessAt a Kansas City outlook forum, NCGA, ASA and USDA economists questioned a diesel export ban, a farmer survey showed most corn and soybean growers only expect to cover costs, and USDA doubted demand for more ad-hoc aid.
CropsLower paddy area and a 26% rainfall deficit in southern India have lifted prices of Sona Masoori, Ponni and Swarna rice by 10-25%, even as government rice stocks stand far above buffer norms.
LivestockA Penn State Extension veterinarian says transition milk fed for several days can help calves' gut development, but the first feed of high-quality colostrum in the first hours still matters most.
CropsThe OROWS project is comparing how wheat, barley, oats and rye varieties resist or tolerate disease under organic management, giving growers without fungicides better grounds for choosing seed.
A three-kilogram hilsa caught in the Meghna by fisherman Zahed Majhi was sold at an open auction at Hatiya's Chairman Ghat for Tk 10,900, to local trader Bishu Bepari.
CropsA BARI entomologist told a BARC workshop that vegetables carry 10% and fruit 4% more pesticide than the approved dose, and urged a shift from chemical pesticides to biopesticides.
FisheriesWith ICAR-CIFE's help, a hatchery at Kanase near Pune bred about 2.5 lakh striped murrel hatchlings and 45,000 fingerlings using an improved peptide hormone, meeting demand from farm-pond owners.
FisheriesICAR-CMFRI's Madras station produced and shipped 100,000 cultchless spat of the Indian backwater oyster to Maharashtra and settled 1.5 lakh larvae on shells for farming trials in Pulicat Lagoon.
FruitsThe United States grew 3.87 billion pounds of watermelons in 2025, and Georgia moved ahead of Florida on more acres and above-average yields, a USDA Economic Research Service chart shows.
With machine composting and training through an IRRI-backed project, New Green Farm Cooperative in the Mekong Delta now earns from straw it once burned and has cut chemical nitrogen use by 40%.
A new IPC analysis projects 5.4 million Somalis in crisis hunger or worse from October to December, with El Niño flooding set to hit riverine and agropastoral farming communities hardest.
LivestockHydrological modelling for three Manitoba watersheds projects warming of about 2.5 C by 2050 and nearly 5 C by 2100, drier pastures and falling groundwater for dugouts and livestock water.
LivestockWith more than 1,600 BTV-3 cases in Great Britain this season and eight in the Republic of Ireland, DAERA Minister Andrew Muir says clinical cases are likely to emerge in Northern Ireland and urges vaccination.
LivestockA short circuit in an electric fan set fire to day-labourer farmer Utsab Bain's cowshed at Boro Dumuria in Gopalganj's Tungipara, killing his five dairy cows; the loss is put at Tk 8 lakh at least.
A new Farm to Stay Grant Program opening in November will help US farmers and ranchers turn working farms into overnight stays or on-farm experiences, as farm-stay earnings grow.
Market ManagementDTN's weekly survey found six of eight fertilizers slightly dearer than a month ago and seven of eight above a year earlier, as analysts doubted a proposed potash deal with Belarus would help.
106 solar-powered irrigation pumps now run in Maheshpur, Kotchandpur and Sadar upazilas of Jhenaidah, cutting farmers' irrigation bills and letting owners sell surplus water to neighbours.
Rakibul Haque, 28, of Bochaganj in Dinajpur has planted a Vietnamese black rice variety on 33 decimals of leased land, the first time the crop has been grown in the upazila.
AgrotechThe Carbon Autonomy Ready programme sets specifications so implements can connect directly to Carbon's autonomous tractors; Great Plains' HT1100 Terra-Max tillage tool is the first.
CropsA University of Aberdeen and James Hutton Institute study found varieties such as Optic suppress ammonia-oxidising microbes by up to 30%, a heritable trait breeders could select to cut nitrogen losses.
