The autumn bird flu season has started in the US turkey belt. Since 1 September, APHIS has recorded seven H5N1 detections in commercial poultry across North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Idaho, the largest a turkey operation in McPherson…
Global Dairy Trade's price index fell 1.1% at Event 412 on 15 September, its first decline since early July. The composition matters more than the headline: butter fell 5.7% to $4,760 per tonne and anhydrous milk fat fell 3.0% to $5,739, while skim…
The EU's antimicrobial mirror measure is now working as a product-by-product gate. Brazil was removed from the list of countries authorised to export food-producing animals and animal products to the EU under Commission Implementing Regulation (EU)…
Europe's corn shortfall is larger than it looked in July. USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service puts EU corn production at 48.2 million tonnes for 2026/27, 4% below its July forecast and 15% below last season — the smallest EU crop of the century so…
The US-Canada dairy dispute has changed instrument. Canada answered the July Section 338 duties with counter-tariffs on C$27.6 billion (US$20 billion) of US goods on 8 September (Congressional Research Service, U.S. Tariffs on Canadian Imports…
Peru's El Niño commission has raised its forecast again. ENFEN's latest communiqué, issued on 14 September, says the coastal El Niño in the Niño 1+2 region is most likely to reach extraordinary magnitude between September 2026 and January 2027, and…