As the 2025 fishing season signs off, Southeast Alaska’s pink salmon sector is on the cliff edge. This is after the Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) recorded a 20% harvest reduction from previous targets.  The Southeast and Prince William Sound fisheries have reported steep haul cuts for companies and individual fishers alike. Among companies is Trident Seafoods, which processes and packs both...

A hub in mountainous Al Baha city in southwestern Saudi Arabia has planted 500,000 coffee trees, exceeding the initial target of 300,000. The development crowns a July 3, 2024 conception by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, under the Vision 2030 strategy. Al Baha’s mega agricultural hub in Mashouqa is now the Gulf region’s initial coffee-bearing metropolis – reports the Gulf...

Malaysia is actively anticipating the European Union Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR) on especially coffee and palm oil exports after a year’s moratorium.  On August 26, 2025, the Ministry of Commodities tightened contingency plans to make mainstream industries responsible enough. The aim is to claim the ‘low risk’ status on the December 30, 2025 deadline and enjoy moderate export inspections. Malaysia’s current ‘standard risk’ status underlines inspections...

Variations in lobster meat prices and inflation made Maine’s eateries consistently dole out lobster roll meals at top dollar this summer, a reprise of 2024.  An assessment by the Bangor Daily News covering end May through mid-August 2025 showed steady restaurant pricing. According to the report, 10 facilities from Portland to Lubec averaged $24.95-35.41 across different roll sizes, from 4-oz to pounders. Overall, there...

India will provide sugar export quotas to only capable mills and simultaneously maintain current ethanol rates, says the central government in New Delhi. Warranting such quotas is the country’s sugarcane crop, which the Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra on August 26, 2025 stated as quite bright-looking. Sanjeev added that this means mills that can ship sugar from their own premises will have...

A productive potato harvest in Plateau State in north-central Nigeria has left farm-gate rates catapulting downward – and farmers seeking answers. By August 25, 2025, marketers across the Jos Plateau were barely fetching a fifth of the prices they had been commanding just earlier.  A 50-kg sack is averaging 30,000-40,000 Naira ($19.50-26), plummeting from the earlier 150,000-170,000 Naira ($97.50-110.50) range.  Notably, the crop has...

Current surges in the prices of fresh vegetables in the United States from weather, inflation or tariffs could ameliorate through 2025. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on August 25, 2025, fresh vegetable rates might decrease by 0.8%, year-on-year (y-o-y).   The USDA gives the decrease an accuracy interval of -2.3 and 0.8%, which more or less indicates stable estimates. ...

Rooibos love is drifting into the Far-East, helping make this specialty tea represent a third of all niche exports from South Africa.  In late August 2025, producers of this caffeine-free cultivar vowed to up exports to Japan to stem the 30% U.S.’ tariffs. The United States ranks fifth among SA’s export destinations for this tea at nearly 4,361 tonnes, as of 2024. ...

In the week ending August 24, 2025, Malaysia maximized on gaining palm oil prices before their eventual fall on the 25th.  According to the government, the biofuel hub exploited rates at between 4,200 and 4500 ringgits ($997.50-1,068) a tonne while they lasted.  An accessory driver for the short-lived price spurt was the sudden imposation of 85% tariffs by China on Canada’s canola. This...

As of August 21, 2025, producers in California were halfway through their processing tomato harvest and expecting gains in coming weeks. The state’s Processing Tomato Advisory Board (PTAB) recorded 846,707 tonnes in deliveries in the just ended 8th harvest week.  By the 9th week on August 28, deliveries will apparently hit 845,278 tonnes, bringing the provisional tally to 5,300,269 tonnes. This estimate indicates the...