An Associated Press report shows that the minor backyard fruit, feijoa (Acca sellowiana), actually overshadows kiwifruit’s popularity in New Zealand. Although it costs 10 New Zealand Dollars ($5.89) per kg at grocers, many enthusiasts can only have it for free. The fruit’s free market economy is because each southern autumn (April) it falls generously in leaf-strewn backyards. Subsistence growers...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has sensationally captured the far reaches of fisheries on the South China sea. Taken from the International Space Station on May 12, 2025, the telltale photo of dot-like fishing boats has rekindled remote fishing debates. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2020, China leads the...
Prominent voices including the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have reprimanded the oncoming family farm inheritance tax in the UK. The Labour government has scheduled the first-time levy for April 2026 to channel back increasing tax exemption claims into public use. In reaction, secretary Rollins told GB News on May 13, 2025 during her...
American corn prices dipped before rallying on May 13, 2025, espousing mixed effects of a crop progress report indicating rapid plantings. Early on the 13th, July deliveries shed between 4 and 6 cents at several commodity markets, to $4.14 3/4 a bushel. Late night markets on the 13th however rebounded by 0.52%, to settle at $4.37 a bushel. This price...
The U.S. has again halted live animal imports across the southern border after inspectors detected New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico. These restrictions follow sightings of screwworm larvae on a farm deep in Mexico, 700 miles off the United States’ border. Pouncing upon the detection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) immediately stopped border-crossings of bison, cattle...
An announcement by the new premier of Newfoundland and Labrador on May 12, 2025 could end a contentious sugar levy. PM John Hagen said he’d push to nix the Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax, to alleviate the cost of living. The provincial tax has been operational beginning September 2022, generating at least C$11 million ($7.87...
It is all smiles for the lobster industry of Maine after the repeal of a controversial standard gauge resize. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) via its American Lobster Management Board on May 5 passed Addendum XXXII. As a section of Amendment 3, it replaces the erstwhile Addendum XXVII, across 11 lobster states. Addendum XXVII...
South Africa is observing uptick sales of agricultural equipment and machinery, precipitating an overdue mega equipment show on May 13, 2025. Thanks to late coming La Niña rains, the domestic Agribusiness Confidence Index (ACI) rose 11 points in Q1, 2025, quarter-to-quarter. According to the industry’s confidence index tracker by Agbiz/IDC, the growth was the highest since end...
Italy managed 5% floriculture shipment increments between January and September 2024, ahead of Trump’s 10% universal tariffs. While tariffs could impact the country’s fifth biggest flower market, the United States, in Europe trade remains shipshape. Regional sales aided Italy’s flower sector maintain the second export value position in Europe, after the Netherlands. According to an Il...
An era-defining U.S.-UK trade deal on May 8, 2025 could bring American farmers $5 billion. Echoing a landmark UK-India pact, the agreement happened on Victory in Europe (VE) Day, which commemorates the Allied WWII victory. In a White House statement, the U.S. President Donald Trump said that “the deal includes billions of dollars…especially in agriculture.” While...