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...
Shipments of prepared palm hearts from Peru rose to approximately 3,273.5 tonnes in the January-August 2025 period. This marked a 25% increase year-on-year (y-o-y) despite gaining vegan cuisine at home. According to Agraria, quoting an Agrodata report of October 2, 2025, the exports earned the country a free-on-board value of US$9.667 million. The dispatches overtook January-August 2024’s...
The government of the United States was having a shutdown of key services starting October 1, 2025, testing payments at peak fall harvest. Lapses in governmental funding preempt temporary closures of select services, including those by important agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA processes farmers’ harvest payments for crops it directly...
The New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) has brought relief by delaying the enactment of rope-less lobster fishing regulations in Maine’s federal waters. According to the council on September 25, 2025, the decision allows lobstermen to continue using their current roped traps or pots. Local congressman Jared Golden had beforehand on September 23 persuaded the...
A mega agro-industrial plant for processing cassava, rice and maize is beginning in western the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The joint public-private project got clearance on October 1, 2025 at Mbanza-Ngungu, Kongo Central province, costing $1 billion. With a land lease for 99 years, the plant will cover 104,000 hectares with an annual output of...