Sugar-rich Negros Occidental (NegOcc) province in Western Visayas in the Philippines is going palay (unhusked rice) with the 20-peso ($0.35)-per-kg program. After a May 12, 2025 election-time halt, the Department of Agriculture (DA) on June 24 brought the distribution program to Pulupandan town. The Federation of Irrigators’ Association of Central Negros-Bago River Irrigation System (FIACN-BRIS) initially sold 50 bags...
Canada is recording a slide in summer lobster sales in the United States and China, with the tariff cloud impacting lobstering profits. Although only China’s 25% tariff is currently under force, the United States’ duty moratorium has not helped sales there either. The executive director of the Lobster Processors Association, Nat Richard, opined on...
Low rain in Brazil’s coffee belt upswung global pricing by 3.19% day-on-day on June 23, 2025, after record lows. Arabica for September delivery in New York gained 3.4% day-on-day on the 23rd. This was even as the International Coffee Exchange (ICE)’s robusta deliveries in London surged by 2.91%. On average, Arabica sold at $3.29 per pound by...
Sugar futures dropped to a four-month low on June 23, 2025 by -0.37% day-on-day after crude oil rates crashed. Price pressure also emanated from Brazil’s and India’s 2025-26 surplus projections. Hence, raw sugar futures touched $0.16 a pound (-0.37% daily drop) on June 23 following a lengthy stint near $0.17. News of war ceasefire between Iran...
At 2,200 CFA francs ($3.68) a kg, Ivory Coast’s farm gate cocoa is proving too low to prevent illicit free market offers across Guinea. According to Bloomberg, traders are bypassing official checkpoints in western Ivory Coast to deliver 64-kg sacks of cocoa beans into Guinea-Conakry. Although Ivorian authorities have since 2023 been battling smuggling hard, the...
Central Valley in California is locking a promising start to its 2025-26 table grape season, amid steady demand past Mexico’s supplies. By mid-June 2025, weather-affected imports from Mexico were at 8.9 million boxes out of a possible 24 million boxes. A cross-border decrement favors California’s season at a nostalgic timing when the memory of its table...
CMA CGM Osiris on June 18, 2025 gained passage via the Suez Canal, ending 15 months of huge vessel absence, critical for grain shipping. Inbound from Singapore, the 154,000-tonne 366-meter long ship weighed in at the Alexandria port via the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority, linked the breakthrough to a...
The New York State (NYS) legislature hopes no veto will again hound its June 12, 2025 ban on horseshoe crab harvest for biomedicine (biomed) purposes. This latest attempt to protect the vulnerable critters follows the passing of a bill by both the state’s Assembly and the Senate. The ban seeks to reinstitute the similar Horsheshoe Crab...
Strawberry farms in Michigan in the northern United States offering u-pick services to buyers are witnessing a glut 2025 season. From the middle part of the state such as Fenton to the southeastern Monroe County, early picking is in full swing. The late-May-to-early-July statewide season will help land the annual average of 50 billion pounds...
The spiny lobster season in Jamaica won’t start till July 1, 2025, but authorities are already fending off any closed season harvest. According to The Kitts Nevis Observer, the National Environmental Planning Agency (NEPA) and the National Fisheries Authority (NFA) have begun closed season crackdown. The agencies are advising merchants who still have frozen supplies from...