China temporarily imposed 75.6% duty on grain canola imports from Canada on August 12, 2025, effective two days later. Now on its second leg, the tiff began in March 2025 with 100% levy on canola oil and meal imports. The latest action will impact the world’s top importer of rapeseed, which China almost exclusively buys from...
The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) of Nigeria on August 11, 2025 charged four companies with 400,000 tonnes of processed sugars to undercut imports. Nigeria imports 1.4 million tonnes of the agro-commodity annually, as of 2023, 60 times its current production capacity. To offset dependence, the NSDC is ramping up domestic production, beginning with an August 5 sugar...
After shipping 1.3 million tonnes of potatoes halfway through 2025, Egypt is already exploiting weekly exports of rival tuber, the sweet potato. Just after the August-January marketing season begun, sweet potato shipments topped the weekly agricultural dispatches ending August 10, 2025. According to Amwal Alghad news, quoting the National Food Safety Authority (NSFA), the tuber led vegetable...
Weekly cotton prices in Pakistan fluctuated by over 500 Pakistani rupees ($1.76) in different markets before August 11, 2025, amid falling production. Diverse hubs from Sindh in the country’s southeast to Punjab in the northwest preempted these wide pricing differences. Punjab’s rate per maund (37 to 40 kg) was 16,000-16,500 rupees ($56.16-57.56) while Sindh’s 16,000-16,400...
Chocolate spread prices worldwide could soon rival rising hazelnut wholesale rates in Türkiye, where the 2025 harvest battled frost. The worst cold snap since 2014 drenched the country’s Black Sea region in April 2025, downing output to 453,000 tonnes from 717,000 tonnes in 2024. Along with losses came shortage and price increments, which means hazelnut pastes are likely...
Dorper and merino traders in Australia are cashing in on record rates from tight markets with surprisingly big lamb sizes. Their rates topped A$479.50 ($312.63) a head on August 7, 2025, just days after scoring another record. Australia has had a busy marketing year at home and abroad and expects annual sheep exports to surge by 25%...
Illinois is not too sweet on sweet corn, which it allocates just 8,000 acres out of 11 million acres of field corn. But one family farm is tipping acreage scales for this cuisine variety with a 25% statewide share. According to WQAD8 ABC on August 7, 2025, Neumiller Farms in Carroll County in northwestern Illinois boasts 2,000...
India on August 6, 2025 earned 50% U.S.’ import tariffs after rejecting a promising deal in the interest of Ag and dairy. The two sub-sectors are currently on course to registering a bumper trade year with the United States. President Donald Trump of the United States pegged the decision to India’s oil imports from Russia and traditionally...
South Africa is aggressively targeting a China entry for local stone fruits by the export season beginning from October 2025, onward. According to Grond tot Mond on August 5, 2025, bilateral talks are ongoing for shipping peaches, nectarines and plums. After visiting China in end July 2025, South Africa’s Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen came back with...
Homegrown red meat remains unwaveringly popular to Aussie supermarket chains despite recent biosecurity allowances for beef imports from the United States. According to Sky News Australia on August 5,2025, even McDonald’s with its Western links confirms it will prioritize Down Under supplies. Golden Arches, an imprint of McDonald’s, serves 80 million kg of beef annually across Australia....