The United States on July 14, 2025 set 17.09% duty on select fresh tomatoes from Mexico, risking a pricing time bomb. In the announcement, the Secretary of Commerce Goward Lutnick backed President Trump’s aim to end “unfair trade practices that undercut pricing.” The decision follows a round of unsuccessful talks between the two sides, including...
On June 12, 2025, Francois Rossouw Jr. won the 2025 Agri Western Cape Santam Young Farmer of the Year award. The win evokes his remarkable management of table grape production on the 310-hectare family-run Mooigezicht Estates in Hex River Valley, South Africa. This at a time when seedless grapes, some of which the farm produces, lead South Africa’s...
Years of low trout catches in Seneca Lake, the crown jewel of upstate New York’s Finger Lakes region are over, following restocking. This is barely three months after the larger state’s spring trout angling season began with up to 1.9 million fish reserves. But it is at the Finger Lakes area that current fishing fun seems to...
Egypt is recording decent potato exports and cheaper domestic prices after per-hectare yields rebounded by 15% through 2025. The Minister of Agriculture & Land Reclamation Dr. Alaa Farouk linked the increases to changing weather and modern cultivation. This statement was from an interview quoted by El Watan News on July 13, 2025. During the interview with Lama Gabrial on...
Live cattle futures in the United States surged on July 10, 2025 after the re-closure of the Mexico border over screwworm. Also up were the rates of choice bred Angus calves in opposition to backing down beef prices in the U.S. Concerning Angus markets, values for choice newly born calves with grain-fed sires have reportedly inflated...
Grain growers in northern Italy’s Ferrara province are battling flamingos that are wading flooded paddies and trampling germinating risotto-making rice. According to the Associated Press on July 10, 2025, this province between Venice and Ravenna in northeast-central Italy is keeping night vigils. Farmer Enrico Fabbri recounted how some of his paddies suffered 90% losses from the heedless...
The U.S.’ Ag secretary Brooke Rollins has again passed advisory against cattle crossings from Mexico over fresh screwworm larvae cases. This is happening just a few days after a two-month closure of cattle shipments from Mexico beginning May 11 ended on July 7, 2025. The Agriculture Secretary on July 9 announced the fresh closure after...
On June 7, 2025, the U.S.’ President Donald Trump confirmed the August 1 tariff deadline for imports from South Africa, including for well-performing wine. SA was one of 21 nations that got new tariff letters from the White House between July 7 and 9. Select other recipients included the Philippines, Brunei, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Japan,...
Landlocked Hunchun city in Jilin Province on the China border with Russia and North Korea is checkmating conventional sea ports in king crab supplies. Situated 42 km from the nearest port in Russia and 15 km off the Sea of Japan, Hunchun nevertheless gets crustacean riches first. According to Xinhua on July 8, 2025, the city is...
Spring 2025 lobster fisheries in Atlantic Canada have been generally successful and will add an icing to the July 9-13 Shediac Festival. Despite price dissatisfaction that initiated the current season in late April, fishers have lately posted decent landings. Good tidings are especially true of lobstering activities on the Prince Edward Island (P.E.I). Charlie McGeoghegan, chairman at the Lobster Fishers...