Not easily beatable, the ending 2024-25 Pacific Northwest commercial Dungeness crab season has brought Washington state some $88 million in ex-vessel value. By September 21, 2025, commercial landings had amounted to 12.1 million pounds, alongside over 4 million pounds from tribal fisheries. This lowest catch volume since 2021 nevertheless brought the penultimate highest landing value ever after...
Farmers in India are courting sunken prices of essential produce such as onions, urad and soybeans, currently lowest in three seasons. Internal stocks are contributing somewhat to the decline, with each crop either in excess from imports or low exports. Onions are currently having low export momentum long after the union government resumed exports to places like...
President Putin’s ‘god-daughter,’ Ksenia Sobchak recently held an infamous party in Russia, with caviar and lobster as key seafood ingredients. According to Ukraine’s news line Oboz on September 25, 2025, the 43- year-old media personality served these seafood dishes lavishly. Famous for having once stood for President against Putin, Sobchak hosted the vanity fair same night Moscow...
After initially suspending import mangos from Mali, the European Union (EU) finally banned them on September 24, 2025, fanning supply chain speculations. The local mango industry has since then been reevaluating its stakes as the EU market represents 80% of the $11 million annual export turnover. Reasons for the ban include 50 or more phytosanitary detections in...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will from January 2026 base its sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxation on a three-tier sugariness model, impacting prices. On September 23, 2025, the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) and the Ministry of Finance announced the levy reform on mainly soft drinks. Other sweetened food forms like gels, extracts and powders also fall...
Russia is building a mega oilseed crushing factory in the southwest port of Azov that could rival the flaxseed product market lead by Canada. This largest crushing plant in Europe by ASVA will have an annual processing capacity of 148,500 tonnes of the raw seed. Luckily for Canada, export market rivalry for raw flaxseed will...
Three months after the signing of a law doubling the farm labor wage minimum in Maine, implementation began on September 11, 2025. On June 11, Governor Janet Mills signed a law that rescued agricultural workers from the federal minimum of $7.25/hr to the state’s 2025 all-sector minimum of $14.65/hr. In 2026, the basic wage including for farm...
A United Nations (UN) climate emissions summit is happening September 24, 2025 in New York amid governments’ plans to overspend in fossil fuels. Despite these setbacks, the New York City Climate Week will still keep the global warming discourse alive by holding over 1,000 events. Participant Helen Clarkson, the Chief Executive at The Climate Group...
Cocoa butter exports from January to August 2025 earned Peru approximately US$106.8 million adrift global premium trade, per an Agrodata report. According to Agraria, Lima shipped over 5,786.5 tonnes of the product worth a free-on-board (FOB) value above US$106 million. This export value surpasses that for the entire financial year 2023 that had garnered $71.1 million,...
Soybean futures in Chicago lost to a 1 1/2-month low on September 22, 2025 while corn’s rates rallied around ethanol demand. At dawn trade, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)’s top contract shed 0.1% from the earlier session to $10.24 1/4 per bushel. This lowest performance since August 12 aligns with prediction by the U.S....