The Republican-controlled committee cleared the bill on party lines on 17 September; farm groups welcomed the step and pressed for speed, while pork producers want a national answer to California's Proposition 12 and the Meat Institute is fighting an amendment to bring back country-of-origin labelli
At the Syed Humayun Kabir Memorial Research Symposium, the water and climate specialist cited weak coordination between ministries, little help from the agriculture and health ministries, and donor-funded documents that 'gather dust on the shelf'.
LivestockUSDA has ordered the dairy checkoff to stop funding environmental, social and governance initiatives and told the Agricultural Marketing Service to apply the same rule to every other commodity checkoff.
Farm tractor sales in the United States fell 8% year on year in August to 14,571 units and self-propelled combine sales dropped 4%, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers reported, with Canadian combine sales down more than 40%.
Registered for the 2027 season in Canada, Curanza carries 800 g of cyantraniliprole per 100 kg of seed against competitors' rates of up to 500 g, and is available through CANTERRA SEEDS and BrettYoung; flea beetles alone cost canola growers more than $160 million a year.
Christophe Hansen told the young farmers' organisation at the Ploughing that he will push for mandatory installation aid in the post-2027 CAP; Ireland is the only EU member state without it.
A MoneyGeek analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data counts 175 farmers, ranchers and agricultural managers killed at work in 2024 and 147 other agricultural workers, with transport incidents the leading cause; the fatality rate is nearly six times the national average.
November soybean futures have gained nearly $1.50 since mid-August, and market adviser Naomi Blohm says the next move hangs on Xi Jinping's US visit, Brazil's planting weather, record fund positions and the 30 September quarterly stocks report.
The Efficient Fertilizer Consortium's 2026 awards fund university and government teams in the United States, Canada, Denmark and Israel to test enhanced-efficiency fertilisers, biofertilisers, placement and cover crops across corn, soybean, cotton, irrigated and dryland systems under common field-tr
On-highway diesel hit $6.285 a gallon on 14 September and farm diesel $5.45 on 4 September, up from $3.02; AFBF's Faith Parum ties it to the Strait of Hormuz closure, Red Sea attacks and Russian refining losses, with US distillate stocks down 14% since January and fuel costs forecast at $22 billion
An analysis commissioned by the Meat Institute puts the price of the Senate farm bill's Thune Amendment, which would order a WTO-compliant return of mandatory labelling within a year, at $835 million annually in segregation and record-keeping across the supply chain, and warns of new trade friction
ICMSA president Denis Drennan put four priorities to the EU commissioner, an adequate budget, real measures against price volatility, simplification at farm level and an active-farmer definition based on one livestock unit per hectare.
Cameras and algorithms continuously adjust ground speed, head speed, head pinch and belt and fan speeds towards goals the operator sets with two sliders; the system is available on 2027 Oxbo blueberry harvesters.
CTNBio's Biosafety Quality Certificate No. 714/26 lets Bioma, of the Cogny Ecosystem, use modified microorganisms in closed bioreactors as production platforms for purified molecules, isoprenoids, phytohormones, peptides, with the organism inactivated at the end of fermentation; until now only pha
The Met Office's extended five-day outlook sees a low forming over the north Andaman Sea by 19 September, gusty showers across all divisions and moderately heavy to heavy rain in places.
At a workshop on enforcing the Fish Feed and Animal Feed Act 2010, State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Sultan Salauddin Tuku said needless antibiotics put food safety and production costs at risk, and that the government is alert to complaints of horse meat being sold in Gazipur.
Citing the Forest and Tree Conservation Act 2026, the upazila administration in Faridpur's Alfadanga has made prior permission from the divisional forest officer mandatory before cutting trees even on private land, with cases under section 10 for violators, and spent a day announcing the rule by lou
A seal leak in the RC pump and low gas pressure mean no production before Saturday; the 1,100-tonne-a-day factory made only 65,000 tonnes of urea in all of 2025-26.
A mobile court demolished the two-storey site office of 'Dhaka Western Valley', which was filling land marked as farmland and water body in the detailed area plan without approval; billboards of two neighbouring projects were also removed.
FTMTA executive director Michael Farrelly sees grass machinery selling well on the back of dairy, horsepower creeping up as labour gets scarce, and renewed interest in efficient four-cylinder tractors as fuel costs bite.
