OpinionIn a Down To Earth column, Ranjan Panda argues that India must prepare its farms, village water sources and farm workers now for an El Niño the WMO says is almost certain to last through February 2027.
AgribusinessPet food maker Royal Canin and its wheat supplier Roquette will co-invest in more than 60 French farms moving to regenerative practices, with Soil Capital verifying the farm data both companies use.
CropsBetter-than-expected rainfall has improved wheat and small-grain prospects in Australia, Ukraine, China, the US and parts of Europe, a global crop weather assessment finds; southern Russia's dryness and heat in India remain concerns.
CropsWhen Russia's ambassador offered government-to-government wheat exports and a silo at Moheshkhali, Food Minister Afroza Khanam cited the shortage of land there and proposed a 200,000 to 500,000-tonne silo on unused land at Payra port instead.
CropsFalls of 32 mm to 154 mm in a week halted the northern winter-crop harvest, with sprouted and mouldy grain expected, while Victoria's barley crop is estimated at a record 6.4 million tonnes.
CropsA three-year DPIRD project with GRDC, LongReach and InterGrain will look for the genes that decide why many wheat and barley lines respond poorly to doubled haploid breeding.
CropsArkansas State University leads a four-year, four-university project on turning arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi into a seed or soil treatment against water stress; no results yet.
CropsArevo's Arginex, an arginine-and-phosphate seed treatment, raised winter wheat yields by 0.26 t/ha across seven sites in France, Germany, Italy and Poland, and matched full-fertiliser yields with 20% less nitrogen and phosphorus.
AgribusinessWith Russian strikes since August cutting Ukraine's grain export capacity to 38 percent of normal, President Zelenskyy says the three countries have proposed food shipments under their flags, but Russia has refused.
CropsA Cambridgeshire manager melts his own urea and cuts N by about 20%, a Suffolk grower has gone from 200-220 to about 120 kg/ha, and a Pembrokeshire dairy farmer grew the same grass on 83 kg/ha.
CropsAgronomists in Farmers Weekly's Crop Watch report protracted wheat emergence, written-off oilseed rape, slug damage in cloddy seed-beds and high aphid numbers as the promised autumn rain fails to arrive.
CropsHeat and drought cut England's combined wheat, barley, oat and rapeseed harvest to 16.03 million tonnes, below the 2020 low, with oats down 29% and barley down 11%.
CropsWinter wheat averaged 3.85 tonnes an acre against 4.3 last year, a wet January and summer drought hit crops, and malting barley quality suffered as tillage farmers face high costs and poor prices.
