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EPA's Zeldin Unveils 'American Farmer First' Policy in Iowa and Wisconsin
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announces a proposal to reallocate 100% of additional 2025 small refinery exemption volumes...
France's 47% Pesticide Cut Is Largely a Change of Yardstick, Not Real Use
Paris says the Ecophyto strategy is nearly at its 50% target, but the figure rests on a new EU toxic-load indicator that...
Serbia's Unpaved Rural Roads and Weak Irrigation Are Driving Food Costs Higher
A Fiscal Council analysis shows more than 40% of Serbia's municipal roads are unpaved and field-road spending is minimal...
Russia's 2026 Wine Grape Harvest Poised to Be Decade's Best, Roskachestvo Says
Ample winter moisture and delayed ripening are setting up high-quality grapes in Krasnodar, Crimea and Dagestan, with fi...
Portugal Opens €5 Million Support Window for Weather-Hit Winegrowers
Portugal has opened an exceptional €5 million application window for winegrowers hit by early-2026 storms, with priority...
São Paulo Orange Harvest Grows, but Juice Demand Slump Sends Grower Prices Below Cost
A stronger crop for some São Paulo citrus farms meets a 30–40% drop in juice demand, leaving growers selling 40 kg boxes...
HHS Launches STREAM Program for Next-Generation Weed Management
The ARPA-H initiative will fund AI-discovered herbicides, laser weeding, drone spraying and low-cost residue sensing as ...
NCGA Targets 30 Billion Bushels of New Corn Demand as Ethanol, COOL and Farm Bill Shape Outlook
A 20-cent corn rally, Senate beef COOL passage and record ethanol use are giving corn and cattle markets new direction, ...
China’s Durian Boom Turns Pingxiang Into a High-Stakes Border Trade Hub
China imported one million tonnes of durians in the first half of 2026, up 51.6%, reshaping small Guangxi border town Pi...
Egypt Takes In 4.72 Million Tonnes of Local Wheat as Season Nears Close
State buyers have collected 4.719 million tonnes of Egyptian wheat, up 780,823 tonnes on 2025, leaving a narrow gap to t...
Iowa Farmland Auction Outlook: Stable Prices, More Sellers This Fall
Iowa's farmland market is flat but liquid, and Hertz Farm Management expects stable values and $4.50 corn could coax mor...
Tesco's Booker Scale Turns England's Drought Into a Sourcing Edge
England's drought has hit wheat, barley and vegetable yields. Tesco's once-criticised Booker takeover gives it buying sc...
Gold and Silver Log Strongest Week in 28 Weeks After US Jobs Miss
Weak US payrolls pushed Treasury yields and the dollar lower, lifting precious metals, while oil fell on US-Iran diploma...
EU Zero-Tolerance Pesticide Plan Could Cut Food Imports 41% and Spike Coffee 332%
A new JRC analysis maps three scenarios for an EU clampdown on pesticide residues in imported food, with coffee, citrus ...
Ukraine Asks EU for €220 Million in Farm Aid as War and Drought Hit Harvests
Kyiv has formally requested EU funds for farmers struggling under Russian attacks and drought, while Brussels studies al...
EU Pesticide Limits Could Push Coffee Prices Up 332% in Worst Case
Brussels wants near-zero residues of banned pesticides in imported food, but its own analysis shows coffee, citrus and E...
Angola’s Agriculture Minister Accuses Banks of a ‘List of Refusals’ on Farm Credit
Isaac dos Anjos says unresolved land titles and missing working capital are pushing Angolan farmers into default and det...
Paraguay’s Farm Growth Has Room to Run, but Roads and Power Are the Brakes
Record soybean output near 12–13 million tonnes shows the sector’s headroom, a former agriculture minister says, but poo...
NCC Exchange Tours Expose Cotton Growers to Cross-Regional Practices and Diversification
Two July tours connected cotton producers from all four U.S. regions, offering hands-on insights into nutrient managemen...
JBS Invests $30M to Transform Souderton Plant, but Cattle Producers Face Trucking Cost Squeeze
JBS will modernize its Souderton, Pa., facility for case-ready production, preserving 400 jobs but ending slaughter, rai...
Brazilian Beef Industry Braces for 35% Drop in China Sales as Safeguard Quota Bites
China's new import safeguard quota is set to slash Brazilian beef exports by a third, forcing major meatpackers like JBS...
Extreme Heat Could Wipe Out EU's 2026 Growth, Warns Triodos Study
A new analysis from Triodos Bank estimates the EU could lose around 1% of GDP, or €180 billion, due to heat-induced lowe...
Seedless Blackberries and Cherry Bushes: Pairwise Bets CRISPR Can Remake the Food System
A North Carolina startup is using gene editing to create thornless, seedless, high-yield fruit and stacking climate-resi...
Paraguay’s Alto Paraná Powers Grain Exports with Fertile Soils and New Bridge Link
The eastern department’s high-yield soils, strategic logistics hub, and upcoming Integration Bridge cement its role as P...
Triodos Bank Warns Summer Heatwaves Could Wipe €180 Billion Off EU Economy
A new report from Dutch lender Triodos warns that extreme heat and drought in summer 2026 could slash EU GDP by 1% — equ...
Four Factors That Could Push U.S. Wheat Prices Above $8
Black Sea disruptions, Southern Plains drought, record-low acreage and sluggish exports are creating a volatile outlook ...
Kharif Sowing Gap Shrinks Under 2% as August Rains Revive Planting, Sugarcane Acreage Revised Down
India’s kharif crop coverage reaches 87.6% of normal, with the year-on-year deficit narrowing to 1.8% after accelerated ...
Xuan Thien Group Plans Angola Expansion Into Agriculture and Oil
Vietnamese conglomerate Xuan Thien Group presented new investment plans in agriculture, mining, energy, and oil to Angol...
El Niño Threatens to Send Brazil Food Inflation to 9.5% in 2027
A Super El Niño could push food-at-home inflation in Brazil to between 7.5% and 9.5% next year, with a peak of 11% betwe...
Cameroon Cocoa Output Plunges 20%, Squeezing Global Chocolate Supply
Production fell to a five-year low of 247,914 tonnes in 2025/26 after extreme weather hit West Africa, slashing exports ...