A sharp Malay coconut shortage fanning unruly prices has prompted imports of over 66,000 of coconuts-in-shell. It all began in May 2024 when Perak on the western coast and the northern peninsula reported coconut yield drops by 80 to 90%. Coconut-reliant recent holidays like the Lunar New Year and Thaipusam have further stoked shortage, spiked prices and...
A lag in the ongoing 2024-25 harvest won’t deter Brazil’s soybean crop from tipping the annual production scale. According to consultancy Pátricia Agronegócios courtesy Grain Central, 27.2% of the reaping was over February 14, 2025, a 10.5% weekly gain but a 3.4% yearly drop. Though harvesting amid sporadic rain is a throwback to the April 2024 flooded harvest, it is not hampering...
Marine biologists have developed a precise satellite monitoring method that could ease lobster population tracking in Western Australia (WA). In a Science of the Total Environment publication, scientists reveal how monitoring seagrass (H.minor) and algae changes could help predict lobster stock. The premise is that rock lobster gather around healthy marine grass habitats. Monitoring changes in these ecologies...
The hitherto premium olive oil price in Spain has lately fallen from the heights of $6 €(5.72) per liter in May 2023. This has enabled supermarkets to be generous by offering gross discounts, even for expensive brands. A normally premium Coosur-branded bottle of olive oil now costs €5.49 ($5.76) per liter or 38% less at Aldi. This is quite a...
The Philippines will export 66,000 tonnes of raw sugar to the United States before April 2025 to siphon off domestic glut. According to the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), the shipments will help stabilize fluctuating domestic prices. Although the American import price is 1,000 pesos ($17.26) below the local 50 kg wholesale price, shipments will still...
Republican Congressmen Daniel Webster and Greg Steube of Florida (Fla) have reintroduced the Citrus Protection Act to restrict commercial imports from China. As representative of The Villages in central Fla, Webster aims to put local agriculture first and stamp out foreign dependancy. The bill graced the 119th Congress’ 1st session in Washington D.C. on February 18, 2025 and...
People in the United States are renting chicken for eggs like there is no tomorrow over bird flu-related egg inflation. Although plant-based eggs abound, Americans are still adamant for the real thing whose prices now average $4.95 a dozen. Luckily, longterm rental firms have made leasing a backyard layer or two cool and even professional....
Robust coffee demand drove late 2024 auction prices at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) to record 859.40 shillings ($6.60) per kg. Helpfully, dry weather effect on Brazil’s and Vietnam’s crops rallied international prices to a historic $3.3545 a pound (7.37 per kg). This strong international price was a windfall for Kenya’s coffee estates, just then beginning their October...
With inflation up by 0.4% in January 2025 from December 2024, rice in Japan is at its steepest pricing on record. This turn of events has eclipsed the legendary deflation that Japan has toyed with for decades. The Bank of Japan put the core consumer price index (CPI) for January 2025 at 3.2%, year-on-year (y-o-y). Marking the...
Torrential rain and snow have lately hosed through the central California strawberry belt and created market shortage amid high demand. Some key producers in Santa Maria in central California such as Markon Cooperative sent advisories of harvest disruptions by rain. The cooperative cited over 2 inches of rain in northern Santa Barbara, which effectively postponed picking schedule...