The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development and Forests has reported stock decline of sardines in Morocco with consequential price surge. According to the ministry, the decline owes to heating open waters whose temperatures verge on 23ºC, above the 18º optimum. This news is likely to affect prices, which by August had risen to 35 dirhams ($3.51) per...
From north to south, cattle prices in Australia have seen a positive growth early December 2024 after rain cut off supplies. During the period, southern Queensland, Victoria and the northern New South Wales received over 100 millimeters of rain. Similar trends happened in the northwest, which according to Beef Central saw over 50 millimeters of saturation. As the last...
The harvest of American sugar beet has ended in most locations, with uptick yields and volume climb year-on-year. American Crystal Sugar Company, a co-operative in North Dakota and Minnesota, alone has produced a record 13.2 million tonnes in 2024. This is above the 12.17 million tonnes that the company reaped in 2023. The company’s output is significant...
A fishermen in Bristol, Maine landed a rare yellow lobster on December 7, 2024, two months after a similar catch in Nantucket, Massachusetts. According to News Center Maine, Max Moody caught the crustacean after finding it among his traps on the nearby wharf. Even though lobsters come in a variety of tinges from the typical...
Market prices of coffee returned down to earth briefly on December 2 to a 14-day low after scoring a 47-year high. But by December 5, they had rebounded sharply due to multiple factors including trade and weather forces. Arabica in New York rose by 3.23% while Robusta in London by 2.62%, attendant to drought reports from Brazil and...
750 farmers including women in the coffee-rich Sidama Zone of southern Ethiopia have received solar powered pumping systems, courtesy of an international initiative. The allocations to farmers in Dore Bafana Kebele and Hawassa Zuria Woreda demarcations in Sidama feature 145 kilowatt solar pumps. Supervising the handover, the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP)’s representatives behind the project cited substantial emission...
The recall of raw milk in California continues after the detection of bird flu microbes in samples from a local dairy farm. Fresno’s Raw Farm voluntarily recalled its milk following the first virus contamination case in its dairy on November 21. The California Department of Food and Agriculture on December 3, 2024 further advised people to forfeit...
Ukraine has imposed minimum export prices for certain oilseeds, grains and vegetable oils effective December 1, 2024 to streamline foreign revenue inflows. Hitherto, traders have been purchasing fast-moving grains and oilseeds from farmers in cash and then exporting them at low prices. To prevent this, the government has published base prices which will keep changing each 10th of the...
The UK, Norway and the European Union on December 2, 2024 reviewed the 2024-25 fishing quotas in the North Sea with cuts affecting the Scotland cod fisheries. This marks the second back-to-back reduction of cod allocations since the reinstatement of post-Brexit joint fishing rights. According to the Ministry of Trade and Fisheries of Norway, the total allowable...
A sugarcane union in Uttar Pradesh in northern India has requested better cane prices for farmers. This at a time when preliminary local production is ebbing and sugar prices are falling worldwide. The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) wants the union government to up the price from 370 rupees ($4.37) a quintal to a reasonable 450 rupees ($5.31). In...