After warm weather delays, Texas kicked off its 2025-26 winter rainbow trout season on November 26 just before Thanksgiving. The November 26-March 6 run offers anglers access to 335,048 fish released by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). This season’s stock projection will be slightly below that at the beginning of the 2024-25 timeline...
The United Nations (UN) on November 25, 2025 voted to re-adopt a 2007 agricultural technology resolution for sustainable development by Israel. 129 nations voted in favor, 29 not for and 15 boycotted, technically giving Israel’s vision a nod. The UN has been mulling this sustainable technology agenda since 2007, and had at one time adopted...
PM Sir Keir Starmer’s administration is aiming the UK’s Autumn Budget at a new sugar tax on commercial milk-based treats. According to the Independent, this will render milk products no longer exempt from the 2018 soft drinks industry levy (SDIL). Health secretary Wes Streeting has already confirmed a January 1, 2028 implementation date for the levy...
Eager to recover 1980s’ glory, pineapple exporters in Fiji are staging a comeback to the New Zealand market via a gaining cultivar. On November 19, 2025, the country shipped a 3-tonne trial cargo of popular Ripley Queen pineapple to Auckland. Coordinating the breakthrough was the Minister of Agriculture and Waterways Tomasi Tunabuna who praised the...
One of the biggest federal slaughterhouses, Tyson’s Beef has announced an upcoming closure of a Nebraska supply plant and potentially another in Texas. The move could slash U.S.’ beef output by at least 7-9% – and it is already creating market uncertainty. The announcement on November 21, 2025 continues to draw shock reactions from the...
The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Morocco presented the 2024 Industry Barometer October 30, 2025, revealing 0.8% agri-food sector’s annual growth. That the sector appreciated that much was significant because 2024 was economically challenging to the food industry in the Maghreb. The relatively new Barometer that began in 2022 is a key source of...
The Associación de Productores y Exportadores de Mangos (APEM) of Peru has cited international market trends as the main determinant of export rates. The APEM chose clarification to root out speculation that producers and exporters have reached a price agreement. According to an Agraria news report on November 21, 2025, the APEM stated that exporters...
Zimbabwe’s January-September 2025 berry export returns grew by 34% annually from robust prices and increasing market access, per the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency. The export value rose to US$10.4 million from the US$7.79 million of the corresponding first nine months of 2024. Bringing a manifold improvement to the returns were uptick export rates, which appreciated by 13%...
A court has ruled that the lobster industry of Maine must keep using electronic trackers aboard fishing vessels despite staging lengthy resistance. The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, Ma., ruled in favor of the tracking regulation on November 19, 2025. Since December 15, 2023, Mainers have been using electronic trackers on their boats...
A renewal in rice imports from neighbors amid slowing food inflation has reestablished low prices for the staple in Nigeria. After years of cross-border import ban, the government recently allowed back purchases of the grain from regional origins. One of these sources is Benin, whose surplus supplies are currently smuggling into Nigeria, further cheapening the cereal. According to Palash...