President Donald Trump of the United States on December 8, 2025 announced farm aid worth $12 billion as bailout against trade war expenses. The plan emerged at a White House roundtable meet between the President, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and farmers. Trump said that the farm aid kitty comes from a...
Wholesale prices of Chilean salmon species (Salmo salar) in the competitive Brazil market recovered by nearly 13% weekly, starting December 8, 2025. The improvement effaces several lapses including week 2 of November when cross-border rates had dipped to under $US6 a kg. Although unclear how much it is commanding currently, the fish is apparently gaining in value, especially the 10...
The November 2025 FAO food price index (FPPI) that tracks prices of global dainties dipped to 125.1 points, the lowest since April. November registered a 2% fall in the index month-on-month from the final October value of 126.6 points. The decrease is the third consecutive since September (128.5 points), indicating slowing inflation and gaining production among nations....
In the just beginning 2025-26 citrus marketing season in Pakistan, trade is finally coming to terms with lowering seasonal exports since 2021. Marketers predict similar falls for the current marketing year as previously, particularly if the strategic Afghan border remains shut. According to Dawn on December 8, 2025, Afghanistan absorbs 60% of national citrus exports because of...
Consumers could benefit from the postponement of the 2025-26 Oregon commercial Dungeness crab season’s opener to December 16, 2025 to allow enough meat fill. The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) first posted this delay on November 21, 2025, leaving the traditional December 1 opening to recreational fishers. This echoes the 2024-25 season, which also launched...
Farmers in Andhra Pradesh in southeast India are ruing a crash of farm-gate banana prices to 50 paise ($0.0056) a kg. Paise is a small unit in India’s money, equal to 100th part of a rupee and thus enjoys little use. While the paise claim only informs Andhra Pradesh, the situation is no better in Telangana where rates...
Pará state in northern Brazil’s Amazon delta has pushed its January 1, 2026 cattle tracking deadline to 2030, displeasing environmentalists. Reuters quoted the state government stating on December 3, 2025 that bovine and buffalo identification can newly begin December 31, 2030. State ranchers can therefore postpone putting ear tags on their 26 million-strong herd, unless by...
International beverage prices lapsed by 10% quarter-to-quarter in Q3 2025 just before global cocoa and coffee prices recovered. This according to the World Bank (WB)’s beverage price index on December 2, 2025. The report links the fall to a quarterly supply rally in cocoa and coffee that cooled respective prices against stability in tea. Since November, however, coffee and cocoa have...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans local fruit sector purchases worth $30 million from such states as Florida for nutrition programs. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that the purchases will absorb current surpluses so that they “do not go to waste.” The purchases depend on Section 32 of the Agriculture Act of 1935 that provides for...
Deep sea fisheries spanning 900 km along the Western Australia (WA) coastline and metropolitan Perth have closed commercially to save demersal species. The WA’s government stated on December 3, 2025 that the permanent ban aims to rejuvenate snapper, red emperor and dhufish species. Provisionally, the Kalbarri-Perth metro-Augusta coastline remains permanently off limits for commercial...