The Minnesota 2025 walleye season has recorded rising fishing licensure since its May 10 opener, in a run lasting till November 30. According to WJON on May 16, 2025, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) put annual license sales as up by 6%. Some of the licensees have rushed to the bounteous northern lakes’ region where they have recorded early gains. It...
China cherry generosity saturates Vietnam at half price
Vietnam is leveraging cherry supplies from emerging greenhouses of China that are offering importers 50% the international price. Ho Chi Minh City’s specialty fruit vendor Thanh Loan told VNExpress on May 18, 2025 of prices hugging 0.5 million dong ($19.26) a kg. Loan purchased 2 kg of China’s cherries at almost 1.2 million dong ($46.22), the same price for 1 kg of...
South Africa-United States talks could rescue sourly citrus
South Africa-United States citrus trade relations could sweeten when Presidents Ramaphosa and Trump meet May 21, 2025. The meeting comes adrift simmering tensions that range from 30% tariffs (currently suspended) and diplomatic tiffs. In March, Washington D.C. dismissed SA’s ambassador following his anti-”American First” comments. Then in early May, Trump welcomed 49 Afrikaners who “fled” South Africa on white land...
Short-season basmati acreage in India up courtesy firm prices
India’s annual basmati sowing area will expand by 10% as farmers rush to plant short-season varieties to maximize favorable pricing. Satish Goel, head of All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA), forecasts 7 to 10% seasonal expansion for the short crop. As a June to September Kharif grain, short-duration basmati enjoys the advantage of a quick maturity cycle that suits demand shifts. Maturing in 4 months or...
Feijoa fruit dearer to New Zealand than kiwi
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 just pick up the fallen...
Fisheries of China dominate the world as seen from space
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 globe with 564,000 fishing vessels. With such...
Family farm tax elicits sharp reactions in the UK, U.S.
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 UK visit that the tax...
Corn crop progress spurs mixed effects on American markets
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 captures the weekly upper range,...
Live animal imports from Mexico into U.S. halt again from screwworm
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 and ponies. The USDA however...
Sugar levy in Newfoundland and Labrador nears its twilight
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 million) annually. According to the governmental...