Consumers could benefit from the postponement of the 2025-26 Oregon commercial Dungeness crab season’s opener to December 16, 2025 to allow enough meat fill. The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) first posted this delay on November 21, 2025, leaving the traditional December 1 opening to recreational fishers. This echoes the 2024-25 season, which also launched...
Farmers in Andhra Pradesh in southeast India are ruing a crash of farm-gate banana prices to 50 paise ($0.0056) a kg. Paise is a small unit in India’s money, equal to 100th part of a rupee and thus enjoys little use. While the paise claim only informs Andhra Pradesh, the situation is no better in Telangana where rates...
Pará state in northern Brazil’s Amazon delta has pushed its January 1, 2026 cattle tracking deadline to 2030, displeasing environmentalists. Reuters quoted the state government stating on December 3, 2025 that bovine and buffalo identification can newly begin December 31, 2030. State ranchers can therefore postpone putting ear tags on their 26 million-strong herd, unless by...
International beverage prices lapsed by 10% quarter-to-quarter in Q3 2025 just before global cocoa and coffee prices recovered. This according to the World Bank (WB)’s beverage price index on December 2, 2025. The report links the fall to a quarterly supply rally in cocoa and coffee that cooled respective prices against stability in tea. Since November, however, coffee and cocoa have...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans local fruit sector purchases worth $30 million from such states as Florida for nutrition programs. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that the purchases will absorb current surpluses so that they “do not go to waste.” The purchases depend on Section 32 of the Agriculture Act of 1935 that provides for...
Deep sea fisheries spanning 900 km along the Western Australia (WA) coastline and metropolitan Perth have closed commercially to save demersal species. The WA’s government stated on December 3, 2025 that the permanent ban aims to rejuvenate snapper, red emperor and dhufish species. Provisionally, the Kalbarri-Perth metro-Augusta coastline remains permanently off limits for commercial...
India expects sugar production to rise to 35 million tonnes in the 2025-26 marketing year, fueling industry concerns on exports and prices. Out of this October 2025-September 2026 seasonal total, 5 million tonnes will constitute ethanol while 31.5 million tonnes sugar. The above National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories (NFCSF)’s sugar output projection almost equals 2023’s record...
Aussie agriculture, fisheries and forestry production value will reach an unprecedented A$106.4 billion ($69.66 billion) in 2025-26, courtesy robust wheat and livestock sectors. According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), solo agricultural output will reach A$99.5 billion ($65.1 billion). The ABARES’ executive director Dr. Jared Greenville said the winning...
It’s strawberry harvest season in Egypt, whose start a fortnight earlier in November has occasioned glut and prompted additional fresh cargo flights. Some traders have cited that their production in 2025 has increased by 50% year-on-year, pressuring market prices. The surplus is headed for Europe – and Egypt is turning to extra charter flights and extending...
Lobstermen in Southwest Nova Scotia cast their gear into waters on ‘Dumping Day’ November 24, 2025, ushering a six-month lobster trapping season. By the time the exciting ‘day 1’ was nearing its climax at midnight, fishers were busy hauling in their initial catch. This winter lobstering marathon is taking place in Lobster Fishing Areas (LFA) 33...