CropsAgricultural Research Council scientists modelled moving a tenth of six crops' area to newly suitable zones and found the best returns for maize and citrus, with sorghum the most resilient under severe climate change.
CropsSeed companies and Grain SA advise fewer maize hectares on marginal soils, more sunflower, staggered planting, careful input buying and no experiments this season.
Market ManagementOctober futures averages beat the spring prices for both crops, the first time since 2022 for corn, so revenue protection policies will use the higher harvest prices; any indemnity now has to come from a yield loss.
CropsPI Industries says Pioxaniliprole, registered by India's Central Insecticides Board, is the first insecticide active ingredient discovered in India and is aimed at fall armyworm in maize.
AgrotechUS start-up SAGE, led by former tech executive Bill Veghte, prices crop risk for each field instead of county averages, and will offer "precision crop insurance" to corn and soybean growers in 15 states in 2027 with Aon and AgriCap.
CropsFarmers sold hard into the rally, leaving elevators owning close to half of local corn and soybeans; a $1 futures rise could mean about $9.6 billion in margin calls.
CropsFarmers in Hatibandha, Lalmonirhat, blocked the Lalmonirhat-Patgram-Burimari highway at Parulia Bazar demanding fertiliser, accusing a dealer of selling it on the black market.
CropsA soil analysis costing a few hundred rand guides one of the biggest cost decisions of a grain season, a South African crop nutrition specialist says.
CropsUkraine's biggest grain exporter shipped 574,000 tons in the July to September quarter, its edible oil sales fell 48% and it now expects a corn yield of 8.1 tons per hectare, down 13%.
AgrotechAt an Ontario yield tour demonstration, crop advisers showed how soil conductivity and RTK elevation data build zone maps that guide variable-rate seeding, fertiliser and fungicide.
CropsAs harvest winds down, DTN's View From the Cab farmers in Maryland and Minnesota say nature supplied much of their nitrogen this year, extra fertiliser paid little, and a drone-seeded cover crop failed in the dry.
CropsNASS corrected Kansas and Nebraska corn data after a processing error, raising Nebraska's September yield from 177 to 182 bushels an acre, but left its October forecast of 181.2 bushels and a 16-billion-bushel crop unchanged.
CropsDaily camera imaging of 47 corn varieties at the Danforth Center showed that combined heat and drought shrank most plants more than either stress alone, with effects that lasted weeks after the stress ended.
