On January 12, 2026, the USDA’s monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report projected upscale wheat supplies, lowering prices a day after. The WASDE raised international wheat production by 4.3 million tonnes annually in 2025-26, to 1.102 billion tonnes. Also up is global consumption of the grain by 900,000 tonnes year-on-year (y-o-y), to...
Plant Quarantine Authorities in Egypt and the Dominican Republic have okayed the export of citrus fruits from Egypt to the Caribbean nation. Approval followed satisfactory inspections by a Dominican Republic phytosanitary delegation to Cairo in November 2025. The two nations would then on January 12 officially push back the new export calendar to January 1,...
A centuries-old tradition of eating shellfish fresh is ending after England banned live lobster boiling, prompting Canada to rethink this ‘gatherer’ approach. Home to numerous restaurants fueling a nearly C$3-billion ($2.16 billion) lobster economy, Canada is weighing the impact of the ban abroad. It is a critical debate from an economical angle because the UK...
South Africa is practically converting nearing access for its cherry crop in China into local retail advantage, amid upshot demand. Pretoria has in the past few months been anticipating feedback from Beijing on initial bilateral cherry trade – with analysts betting on a 2026-27 start. The anticipation stems from October 2025 when the Minister of...
The final FAO food price index (FFPI) for 2025 oversaw the third consecutive monthly decrease of international prices but overtook 2024’s. According to the January 9, 2026 report, the December 2025 FFPI scored 124.3 points, 0.6% down monthly but 4.3% up yearly. The overall 2025 index averaged 127.2 points, versus 122 points in 2024 but was...
The European Union (EU) preliminarily passed the EU-Mercosur Agreement by 65% votes on January 9 in Brussels, per the RFI. Deal opponent, France, had earlier appeased protesting farmers by banning five pesticides in food imports. Mercosur is a trading bloc in South America originally composite of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. The deal is nevertheless yet...
Poor local demand and oncoming milling surplus have forced sugar prices down in the Philippines into a producer crisis despite ebbing current yields. So far, the PH has stayed the crisis by extending an import ban of the sweetener from September to December 2026. But this has not prevented the Confederation of Sugar Producers Associations Inc. (CONFED)...
The Center for Biological Diversity on January 5, 2026 litigated against the National Marine Fisheries Service for falling behind giving horseshoe crab protection. According to the South Carolina agency, the administration is yet to signal whether to draft the prehistoric critters into the Endangered Species Act. It all started on February 12, 2024 when the...
Broiler and conventional chicken production in the United States increased modestly end 2025, pulling down federal wholesale prices with it. Despite the lingering presence of the pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), broiler production upped by 4% in December 2025 year-on-year (y-o-y). Turkey output also advanced by 8.4% y-o-y, end 2025, according to David Anderson, a Texas...
Olive oil production shifts have lately been shuffling the world’s runner-up position between Tunisia and Italy but now the North African country is almost certainly number 2. According to the Arab Press on January 8, 2026, Tunisia might produce 500,000 tonnes of olive oil in 2025-26, up 50% annually. Official estimates however put 2025-26 output at 380,000-400,000...