LivestockEU dairy feed costs rise 26% in a year as milk prices fall
The European Commission's feed cost measure was 26% higher in July 2026 than a year earlier, the USDA says, while the Middle East conflict has lifted fertiliser and fuel bills.
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LivestockRain and pasture mealybug leave Texas hay supplies uneven before winter
AgriLife Extension specialists say producers with timely rain built stocks, while those hit by dry weather and mealybug will lean on last year's hay.
LivestockHow to keep pastures alive through drought, from an Arkansas forage specialist
Rest forage plants, feed hay in a sacrifice area, move the feeding spot with every bale and plant winter annuals, the University of Arkansas advises.
CropsEU project PROFEED to test home-grown soya, lupin and alfalfa as Europe imports 96% of its feed protein
A €5.5 million Horizon Europe project led by the University of Leeds will screen more than 130 soyabean, lupin and alfalfa lines, try the best on 40 farms and in pig, poultry and fish feed.
LivestockHow pig farmers can spot and fix a slipping feed conversion ratio
A monogastric specialist tells Farmer's Weekly that feed efficiency in pigs depends on nutrition, health, housing and daily management together, and that cutting diet density to save money often backfires.
LivestockMore soybean meal in winter diets helped pigs hold their weight through summer heat
In a Soy Checkoff-funded commercial trial, pigs fed grow-finish diets higher in soybean meal produced carcasses 5.5 pounds heavier during heat stress than pigs on the farm's earlier high-energy ration, at a lower feed cost per pig.
CropsFive sorghum and millet lines could give Saudi farmers grain and fodder from one crop
ICRISAT, FAO and Saudi Arabia's Saudi REEF programme tested 27 sorghum and 15 pearl millet entries in Jazan and Abha and picked five dual-purpose candidates; the best sorghum beat the best check by 9.3% in grain and 41.3% in fresh biomass.
EnvironmentBrazil's soymeal trade braces for EU deforestation rules as Argentina eyes the gap
From 30 December the EU will require proof that imported soymeal is not linked to deforested land, and Brazil's soy industry fears it could lose up to 4 million tonnes of sales to Argentina.
AgribusinessMaharashtra to file police cases against lenders' agents who harass drought-hit farmers
The state drought sub-committee also fixed subsidised fodder prices, approved desilting grants and will decide next week on adding more areas to the drought list.
CropsRain deficit in western Rajasthan leaves fields unsown and goats sold at half price
Jaisalmer got half its normal monsoon rain, fodder prices have more than doubled, 216 of the state's 693 dams are empty and Jodhpur-zone reservoirs hold 15.72% of capacity, yet no drought has been declared.
AgrotechVolare opens a 5,000-tonne insect protein plant in Finland and plans a second
The startup's Pori factory feeds black soldier fly larvae on food-industry side streams, runs with four people a shift, and has already sold much of its output to buyers including Skretting.
CropsZimbabwe farmers brace for El Niño with home-grown fodder and stored water
With below-normal rain forecast across Zimbabwe, three farmers in Matabeleland South and the Midlands explain how fodder stocks, urea-treated stover and water reserves are keeping them in production.
AgrotechMachine-learning tool scores the risk of losing livestock feed from field to bunk
The National Animal Nutrition Program's Feed Value Loss Risk Assessment Tool uses a random forest model to rate how harvesting, storage, mixing and feeding practices threaten feed quantity and quality, starting with silage.