The Generally Recognized as Safe pathway has functioned since 1958 on a principle of self-determination: a company can conclude a substance is safe for its intended use and market it without telling the regulator. The FDA has now proposed to end…
Finland has been preparing for African swine fever for a decade. It arrived on 30 July. The Finnish Food Authority detected the ASF virus genome by PCR in the remains of three wild boar piglets found dead at Vaalimaa in the municipality of…
For three years the US cattle market has run on a single logic: the herd is contracting, supply is falling, price goes up. The August WASDE breaks that chain. USDA lowered its 2026 beef production forecast by 321 million pounds, attributing the cut…
The Climate Prediction Center has moved past the question of whether this event is strong and has begun quantifying whether it is unprecedented. The 13 August discussion carries a greater than 90% probability of a very strong El Nino during the…
Edition 23 recorded that the sharpest Black Sea logistics disruption since 2017 had moved price without moving physical demand. That finding no longer holds. The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service post in Kyiv cut its forecast for Ukrainian corn…
USDA's August Crop Production report is the moment each year when modelled yields are replaced by field data, and this year it delivered a result pointing in two directions at once. The national corn yield forecast fell to 180.7 bushels per acre…