May 3, 2025 marks the exhilarating 2-minute Kentucky Derby gallop, with mint, shrimp and Brussels sprouts gracing the race’s usually pricey menu. Food has been the heart and soul behind this grand race of the American South since its 1875 kick-off. The yearly meet excels with a julep mint cocktail, whose ingredients include water, mint leaves,...
Fresh produce markets in Krakow and Warsaw, Poland, showed stability in apple prices in the week ending April 29, 2025. Retail offers among Krakow’s grocers were at least 3.77 euro ($4.29) a kg, with a maximum 4.19 euro ($4.77). The 15 varieties available in Poland’s wholesale markets stabilised week-on-week at 0.54-0.63 euro ($0.61-0.72) a kg. Golden...
Beet and sugar pricing in Europe have both turned bearish, forcing farmers to reduce the cultivated area. Prices for raw beets were down by 35% year-on-year in Europe by February 2025, to 541 euro ($617) a tonne. This downturn has France’s sugar processor Tereos estimating that farmers in Europe will cut their 2025 planting area by...
The Prince Edward Island or P.E.I. in Atlantic Canada began its lobster spring season on April 25, amid selective harbor dredging. Although 2025 prospects are high, the possible effect of tariffs on landing prices beclouds the sector. Early Opening Fisheries this year also open earlier than in 2024 when windy conditions had delayed the season to May 3. For 2025,...
A retaliatory ban on agricultural imports from two South African Development Community (SADC)’s members by TZ has ended amicably. The lifting of the temporary embargo came just two days after Tanzania’s Minister of Agriculture Hussein Bashe had halted agricultural imports. A statement by the Plant Health and Pesticide Authority of Tanzania (TPHPA) on late April 26,...
Vice President Sara Duterte of the PH has kicked a hornet’s nest after suggesting that the 20 peso ($0.35)-per-kg rice ought to be “fit for human consumption.” Duterte, who awaits an impeachment trial just before upcoming elections, reiterated that such cheap palay is often for pigs. Fresh from a Hague visit, where her former President...
Record production and less biodiesel blend percentage point to uptick soy product exports by Brazil in 2025, the industry says. According to the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove) on April 23, 2025, a bumper soy harvest at 170 million tonnes will push exports. The tally captures the output of the erstwhile harvest in February 2025, which...
Tanzania is launching an ambitious agricultural corridor plan on April 27, 2025, amid a surprise ban on agri-food imports from South Africa and Malawi. The East African nation boasts crop and livestock product diversity that inform both its ambitious agricultural plans and exports. Indeed, just before the retaliatory ban, the country announced the upcoming launch of...
A spring snow hail on April 10-12, 2025 that blighted apricot fields in Türkiye is bringing back recent export memories. The eastern Mediterranean nation cumulatively exported $330 million worth of apricots in the half decade ending 2024, reports Daily Sabah. Currently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is restoring orchards for the 2026 crop. However, valuable apricot export records...
Arabica coffee futures in New York on early April 23, 2025 rose to a 2 1/2-week high adrift a strengthening Brazil’s currency. Nasdaq reports that Arabica beans for May and July deliveries notched 2.96% and 3.22% respectively on the 23rd in daily advances. Meanwhile, Robusta at the International Coffee Exchange (ICE) futures benchmark retreated because it does...