Relative market steadiness informs tomato supplies across the United States end September 2025, with deliveries hovering from light to moderate. According to the Tomato Fax Report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on September 29, most terminals were espousing ‘about steady’ trade. In central California, conventional tomato deliveries at 4,625 units (each 40,000 pounds) were slightly...
China on September 28, 2025 sentenced former Minister of Agriculture & Rural Affairs Tang Renjian to a suspended death for embezzlement, invoking Ag spending focus. According to Reuters, the minister got a death sentence with reprieve at a court in the northeast province of Jilin. The ex-minister apparently amassed money and material wealth amounting to above 268...
Malaysia’s Madani Adopted Village program on September 28, 2025 disbursed 2.138 million ringgit ($507,347) to fund agriculture in Tasek Gelugor on Penang island. This follows a roll out in 42 villages elsewhere early 2025 at 100 million ringgit ($27.7 million), per the Ministry of Finance. The current drive targets farming/animal husbandry activities in the kampungs (villages) of...
Not easily beatable, the ending 2024-25 Pacific Northwest commercial Dungeness crab season has brought Washington state some $88 million in ex-vessel value. By September 21, 2025, commercial landings had amounted to 12.1 million pounds, alongside over 4 million pounds from tribal fisheries. This lowest catch volume since 2021 nevertheless brought the penultimate highest landing value ever after...
Farmers in India are courting sunken prices of essential produce such as onions, urad and soybeans, currently lowest in three seasons. Internal stocks are contributing somewhat to the decline, with each crop either in excess from imports or low exports. Onions are currently having low export momentum long after the union government resumed exports to places like...
President Putin’s ‘god-daughter,’ Ksenia Sobchak recently held an infamous party in Russia, with caviar and lobster as key seafood ingredients. According to Ukraine’s news line Oboz on September 25, 2025, the 43- year-old media personality served these seafood dishes lavishly. Famous for having once stood for President against Putin, Sobchak hosted the vanity fair same night Moscow...
After initially suspending import mangos from Mali, the European Union (EU) finally banned them on September 24, 2025, fanning supply chain speculations. The local mango industry has since then been reevaluating its stakes as the EU market represents 80% of the $11 million annual export turnover. Reasons for the ban include 50 or more phytosanitary detections in...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will from January 2026 base its sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation on a three-tier sugariness model, impacting prices. On September 23, 2025, the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) and the Ministry of Finance announced the levy reform on mainly soft drinks. Other sweetened food forms like gels, extracts and powders also fall...
Russia is building a mega oilseed crushing factory in the southwest port of Azov that could rival the flaxseed product market lead by Canada. This largest crushing plant in Europe by ASVA will have an annual processing capacity of 148,500 tonnes of the raw seed. Luckily for Canada, export market rivalry for raw flaxseed will...
Three months after the signing of a law doubling the farm labor wage minimum in Maine, implementation began on September 11, 2025. On June 11, Governor Janet Mills signed a law that rescued agricultural workers from the federal minimum of $7.25/hr to the state’s 2025 all-sector minimum of $14.65/hr. In 2026, the basic wage including for farm...