Mandarins fanned 2025’s annual citrus export growth for South Africa despite not benefiting from the U.S.’ tariff exemption that favored oranges. Annual export data ending October 2025 shows that the fruit recorded one of the fastest growth rates among national citrus export categories. On November 10, 2025, the Citrus Growers Association (CGA) reported that mandarin exports totaled...
Fishers and coastal politicians in North Carolina (NC) have rallied against a proposal to limit blue crab harvest under Amendment 3. This is happening just before the Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) meets to discuss the issue on November 19-20, 2025. A group consisting of county commissioners from at least 15 coastal counties has been opposing...
The first World Agricultural Supply & Demand (WASDE) report since September dethroned wheat grain market prices and improved corn ones, starting November 14, 2025. It was a baffling report because the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released it without issuing the shutdown-affected October WASDE for comparison. In the report, most grains stayed put in supply and consumption...
The International Sugar Organization (ISO) on November 17, 2025 sharply up-revised 2025-26 global sugar output forecast from deficit to surplus, undercutting market prices. According to this initial revision for the 2025-26 marketing year, the world will have a surplus totaling 1.625 million tonnes. This sharply contrasts 2024-25’s output, whose latest deficit has halved from 4.879...
A cautious optimism pervades Beef + Lamb NZ after the United States reportedly scrapped additional beef duty dating back to August 2025. The Minister of Trade and Agriculture Todd McClay distantly hailed the reprieve applicable to beef, kiwifruit and offal. This trio constitutes 25% of the agricultural goods New Zealand exports stateside, per a Daily Telegraph report of...
The Myanmar Avocado Producers and Exporters Association (MAVO) will channel the bulk of their Hass (Persea americana) output in 2025 to the Thailand and Singapore markets. According to the MAVO, Hass variety’s yields are top-notch this September-December peak harvest and could exceed 2024’s 3,000 tonnes. While some varieties like Buccaneer and Booth 7, among others, enjoy lush...
The world’s biggest in-shell pistachio harvest has hit the home run in California amid record-shattering production projections. 2025’s output might surpass 2023’s high of 1.5 billion pounds worth over $3 billion, but will still fall short of initial targets. Forecasts had initially projected the fall crop at 1.8 billion pounds but revised that figure downward as picking...
The end of the longest federal government shutdown on November 10, 2025 has shifted attention to the effective extension of the 2018 Farm Bill. Vital for guiding the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s funding and loaning rules, the extant Farm Bill had expired on October 1. Beforehand, it had terminated severally including in President Biden’s...
India seeks to protect national agricultural seed collections and native plant species, before a November 24-29, 2025 plant genetics summit in Lima, Peru. Union Minister of Agriculture Singh Chouhan has backed the idea by promising an amendment of the Plant Variety and Farmers’ Rights Protection Authority Act. The governmental decision comes after biologists resisted proposals to expand accessibility of...
Commercial harvest returns for three salmon species on the Prince William Sound (PWS) in southern Alaska has ended 3% below the decade’s parity. The Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADFG) reported on November 4 that Alaska cumulatively landed 194.8 million salmon, up 88% annually. This figure updated an earlier September 2025 preliminary landings’ data,...