Commercial and recreational blue crab fishers in South Carolina (SC) are taking in their stride new conservation rules limiting daily catches from fisheries. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) implemented the rules on July 1, 2025, a year after passing the law. This follows a 2021 report that recorded the lowest blue crab stock in...
Finalizing India-United States negotiations point to a possible free trade deal on select agricultural goods by July 8, 2025. So far, Delhi has drawn a red line on sensitive agri goods such as dairy, which it won’t concede for free. Meanwhile, bilateral exchanges keen on exempting certain food produce and products had neared a breakthrough by July 4. ...
Uptick salmon exports, flat returns for cod and quarterly price increases have steered record half-year 2025 seafood returns by Norway. According to the Norwegian Seafood Council on July 3, 2025, half-year seafood dispatches totaling 1.3 million tonnes earned 85.2 billion Krone ($8.45 billion). Out of this, salmon topped revenue contribution at 57.8 billion Krone ($5.73 billion) after a modest...
Record export prices of lamb in New Zealand at NZ $13.83 ($8.41) a kg have brought processors huge returns but farmers are yet to maximize. According to the Farmers Weekly on July 3, 2025, although farm gate rates are also strong due to tight supply, they could be better. As of June 2025, farmers were receiving NZ$9.55...
It is harvest time for Arizona’s iconic saguaro cactus and therefore a brand new year for the native American community of Tohono O’odham. According to the Associated Press on July 2, 2025, the harvest began in June and will culminate as fruits ripen through early July. So culturally important is the locally-termed bahidaj cactus that its harvest must stop...
The blueberry season in Eastern Europe is in full steam, with Poland beginning its harvest amid wholesale price diversity early July 2025. According to the Agro Review, Poland has begun its season with wholesale rates at between €7 and 11 euro ($8.25-12.96) a kg, as of July 1. The capital of Warsaw is witnessing the most diverse...
New York sugar futures on July 1, 2025 recorded declines in prices on the final delivery date of July’25 contracts from oversupply fears. Sugar #11 or bulk raw cane sugar in New York lost by -2.09% daily, early on the July 1 deadline. The same fate overshadowed the much-traded sugar #5 or bulk raw white sugar in...
A May 2025 China-Indonesia frozen durian (Durio zibethinus) direct export protocol is unfreezing hitherto unimpressive trade, a month on. This at a time when transit durian exports from Indonesia to China barely reached 27 tonnes in 2024, reports the IDX Channel. Hence, direct long haul exports of the frozen fruit could find a perpetual market for Indonesia’s...
Sales’ adverts of grocery specialties in the United States have risen in the June 21-July 3, 2025 timeline, before the Fourth of July. According to the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), peaches have amassed 7% of all non-organic grocery ad placements so far. In the other fruits category are nectarines with 5%, strawberries with 4% and watermelon...
South Africa could moderately fill overreaching demand for dried prunes from falling world production in 2025. 2024-25 local production will upswing to 750 tonnes, per a late 2024 projection by the International Nut and Dried Fruit Council (INC). Since international demand is outpacing supplies, contract producers who cannot meet their orders can capitalize on this modest output...