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...
The Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has inaugurated foreign shipments of specialty cherries, beginning with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). After the initial shipment on June 16, 2025, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry Piyush Goyal lauded the breakthrough as “cheer-worthy.” Goyal also wrote on his X platform account that...
Africa’s agricultural exports to China will benefit greatly from the mid-June 2025 scrapping of import tariffs in Sino-Africa trade. On June 16, 2025, China’s President Xi Jinping granted zero tariff treatment on all tariff lines to some 53 nations in Africa excepting Eswatini. Speaking at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Changsha, east-central China, Xi reiterated...
2024-25 sugar production in Africa will gain 0.8 million tonnes, projects the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in mid-2025. The FAO’s report puts continental sugar output at 10.4 million tonnes before the culmination of the 2024-25 season. Tipping the scales will be the Nile irrigator, Egypt, with 2.6 million tonnes, alongside Morocco and Kenya. While Kenya’s annual...
A proposal by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to raise the mandatory biodiesel blending cap rallied grain markets mid-June 2025. The EPA could raise the biodiesel blending minimum to almost 5.25 billion gallons in 2026, up from 3.35 billion gallons in 2025. If the unconfirmed raise occurs, it will mark the first major renewable...
Currently high tomato prices might normalize after the June 6-9, 2025 Sallah celebrations, amid falling yields in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria. According to Rabiu Zuntu, chair of the Kaduna branch of the Tomatoes Growers and Processors Association of Nigeria (TOPAN), prices could reduce this week. TOPAN’s Kaduna branch had earlier linked the costliness to the three-day Muslim holiday...
The winter citrus marketing campaign in South Africa registered gains by week-23, 2025 and included surplus mandarin shipments to India. Exporters look forward to repeating the 2024 success when 164.5 million 15-kilogram citrus boxes engaged international markets. By marketing week 23 [before June 6, 2025], Eastern, Western and Northern Cape had aggregated about 46.5 million...
The vibrant tropical daisy and ornamental flower Gazania rigens has turned invasive in south Australia, with control costs hitting millions. An ability to survive in diverse soils and dry conditions has aided the shrub to spread on roadsides, dells and even cereal farms. Currently on sale by the local nursery Bunnings and online stores, the ornamental plant...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s recall of 1.7 million dozen cage-free brown eggs from possible Salmonella enteritidis contamination has rekindled price concerns. On June 5, California-based August Egg Company volunteered the market withdrawal of eggs sold between February 3 and May 15, 2025. The recall affects central, southern and western states, namely Arizona, California, Washington, Wyoming, Illinois,...