The Council wants technical-zero import tolerances for particularly hazardous pesticides, including bee and groundwater risks. This is a negotiating mandate, not settled law.
The Council wants technical-zero import tolerances for particularly hazardous pesticides, including bee and groundwater risks. This is a negotiating mandate, not settled law.
Another 79 positive samples were reported across 11 farms in ||Kharas on 2 October. Cases remain confined to the region, but the widening outbreak complicates export recovery.
MARS forecasts EU beet yields 17% below last year, on top of reduced planted area. FAO's sugar index rose 6.1% in September, its third consecutive monthly gain.
FAO's maize measure rose 5.6% in September, while USDA put US corn stocks at 2.10 billion bushels. The divergence points to export logistics and origin risk, not just crop size.
Norwegian Seafood Council April 2026 data shows the world's largest farmed salmon exporter losing volume simultaneously across multiple markets as Hormuz freight costs, US tariff uncertainty, and a stronger krone reshape directional flow.
StoneX's April 2026 revision cuts the 2026/27 global cocoa surplus by 44% on emerging El Niño impacts in West Africa, ending the consecutive-surplus narrative that drove cocoa futures down 50% from their 2025 peak.
Brazil's 14 May 2026 crop survey raises 2025/26 soybean production to a record 180.13 million tonnes, arriving in the same week the May WASDE printed the smallest US wheat crop since 1972.
EFSA's 21 May 2026 report confirms 585 ASF outbreaks in EU domestic pigs in 2025 — a 76% rise, reversing the 83% drop recorded in 2024 and re-establishing the disease as an active expansion risk across EU pig herds.
The White House's 17 May 2026 statement adds USD 17 billion per year in US agricultural purchase commitments for 2026–2028, while China's Ministry of Commerce describes the figure only as a 'guiding target', not a binding contract.
President Prabowo's 20 May 2026 mandate places palm oil exports under a Danantara-supervised state entity from June, ending three decades of private-sector price discovery in the world's dominant edible oil origin.
Exotic serotype enters world's largest beef import market with no domestic vaccine cross-protection. 6,229 cattle confirmed across two northwestern provinces. Mortality in young cattle exceeds 50%.