A first since 2020, Aussie rock lobsters have finally dressed meals during the Chinese Lunar New Year…and buoyed domestic prices. China removed the last barriers to lobster imports from Australia in December 2024 after a ban in 2020. With lobster making a key part of the Lunar New Year cuisine, lobstermen expect good business at home and...
Seven months after passing a plastic recycling regulation in April 2024, the European Union (EU) has dropped a new directive. On January 22, 2025, the EU approved a resolution to make all plastic food packaging recyclable by 2030. Data by the European Commission shows that the new Regulation EU 2025/40 is a revision of diverse 2019 and 2021 directives....
A luckily evaded Colombia-U.S. 25% tariff tiff highlights possible trade impact on food in colombia. On January 27, 2025, U.S.’ President Donald Trump dangled 25% tariffs over Colombia after President Gustavo Petro refused entry to deportees. After a few hours, Petro eventually backed down despite having also slapped 25% tariffs on U.S.’ imports. If the...
A domestic surplus and a syrup import ban by China face Asia’s sugar export champ, the Thai sugar industry. To control oversupply, prices and pollution, the Office of the Cane and Sugar Board (OCSB) has restricted sugarcane burning during harvesting. The board will be screening cane cargo for burning traits to help control the emission of PM2.5 dust particles....
American live cattle markets have overseen cash prices cross the significant ¢200-a-pound mark in the week ending January 24, 2025. According to brokers, by Friday, cash prices had breached $200 a hundredweight, equivalent to 200 cents to the pound. Meanwhile, cattle futures were edging past the cash record, at ¢203.03 a pound for the main live...
Times may be changing, with mānuka honey production slumping but health interest on New Zealand’s famous bee product is increasing. The honey comes from bees whose main diet is the herbal Mānuka shrub or Leptospermum scoparium, hence the name. All has not been so rosy in the flowering shrub of late however, with the New Zealand Herald highlighting flailing market performance. ...
Over 200,000 northeast India tea growers are pressuring the Union government on mounting imports that put them at market risk. The North East Confederation Small Tea Growers’ Association contacted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 24, 2025 voicing its dilemma. One of the perplexing questions is an injunction by the Tea Board of India to...
A fortnightly food price list in Uruguay by the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries is out for January 21- February 3, 2025. These listings are usually recommendations of a few choice staples across all food classes that locals can sample. In partnership with the Metropolitan Agri-Food Unit (UAM), the current fortnight’s choice listings indicate...
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has praised her country for ranking first in value added agricultural growth in the European Union (EU) in 2024. This was in a press statement on the government website on January 22, 2025. The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) put yearly growth at 3.5% vis-á-vis EU’s collective 0.2% growth. Agricultural production...
Farmtok, an ecosystem of farming influencers on TikTok, has made agriculture cool. It has been sharing anything from aerial tours of farms to a few thrilling seconds of grain harvests. There have been many influencers, some of them like Zoe Kent demonstrating through clever pesticide connections how “farming is for the girls.” According to an...