Traditional kiwifruit importer India has got an import price break amid a bumper 2025 harvest in major origin, Iran. According to the Indian Rice Exporters Federation (IREF), availability of Iran’s kiwi supplies in India has risen by 150% this season. Consequently, sample retail sites in India were reporting kiwi prices at 150 rupees ($1.69) per 440 g. This...
Days before the October 25, 2025 general election, Ivory Coast on the 9th escalated its farm-gate cocoa price to 2,550 CFA Francs ($4.50) a kg. After waiting since September, the government finally increased this 2025-26 main crop rate by 14% over 2024-25 mid-crop’s. The last update in April 2024 had upped the mid-crop’s producer price to 2,200 CFA...
Despite the war entering its 1325th day early October 2025, Ukraine has seen its potato yields return to average while prices collapse. According to the Scottish Farmer, weekly prices of table potatoes are $100 down to $185-200 a tonne but still above 2024’s rates. Because of a quality hit from a few weeks of drought and fusarium wilt, some exporters...
Results of a lobster survey by the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) in summer 2025 show lobstermen under considerable economic sway. This first lobster industry survey since 2008 stemmed from the controversial attempt to raise the minimum haul size by 1 1/16th inches. Of the 4700 commercial license holders, 29% responded to the survey inclusive of 1,300...
Keen to boost production and advance livelihoods, Kenya on October 8, 2025 proposed a farmer-accessible global auction for local produce, especially coffee. The Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock Development Mutahi Kagwe isolated coffee as the starting point. In the first rank of priorities is the digitization of the Nairobi Coffee Exchange...
Global food grew cheaper in September 2025 than in August due to low sugar and dairy market quotations, which countered volatile meat. According to the FAO Food Price Index (FPPI), global weighted food rates in September retreated to 128.8 points versus 129.7 points in August. Although 3.4% up year-on-year, the index was still 31.4 points or...
Chum salmon and roe prices are tipping scales in Japan after 2025 landings in the northern island of Hokkaido slowed considerably. This has had an effect on domestic Atlantic salmon retail, which on October 1, 2025 ranged at 4700-4900 yen ($30.92-32.23) a kg. These rates mark a 500-yen ($3.29) rise above 2022’s averages. The same goes...
High temperatures could slash the culminating 2025 wild blueberry harvest in New Brunswick (NB), southeast Canada by 70% below average. Weather forecasts on October 6 for Nova Scotia and NB put temperatures at between 20 and 30ºC, versus the month’s norm of 15ºC. Regional wildfires also hindered the access of Crown (government) forests for two...
As the southern summer planting season in South Africa for maize, soy and sunflower gets underway, a robust 2025-26 canola harvest is nearing. This November, Western Cape where the relatively new crop thrives, will be painted a golden sepia by the ripening oilseed. According to economist Wandile Sihlobo, production in 2025-26 could attain 311,640 tonnes, 7%...
Increasing availability of cattle for sale dipped prices in the U.S. for the week ending October 4, 2025 (week 40) by $5 per hundredweight (cwt). According to the Watertown Daily Times on October 6, cattle prices were down from summer highs, buoyed by a weekly hike in available count. There were 555,000 head for sale or 3,000 higher than...